The new book „Coins of Grand Duchy Lithuanian 1495-1536“ in progress

Hi, I'm Giedrius Bagdonas, Lithuanian, my special themes are Lithuanian halfgroats of 1495-1529, Lithuanian groats 1625-1627, Lithuanian solids 1614-1627, 1652-1653.
Belarussian Dzmitry Huletski and me are writing the new catalogue „Coins of Grand Duchy Lithuanian 1495-1536“ now.

Any information about the varieties of the Lithuanian coins 1495-1536, not included into previous catalogues, is welcomed.

Especially looking for the pictures of half-groats (1508-1529) and groats (1535-1536) of Sigismund the Old.
Each catalogue‘s picture of the coin, taken from you, will be followed by the name of the collector from whom the coin will be acquired.

Thank you.

So, we are working on the book. There's too much unpublished, especially about the Lithuanian large groats of Sigismund the Old 1535-1536, so we decided to restrict our theme: the book will be about the early Lithuanian half-groats (1495-1529) only. The page of rough copy included ( the original issue will be in English only). We will include even 91 different varieties of Lithuanian half-groats of Alexander Jagiellon, and much more varieties of Lithuanian half-groats of Sigismund the Old, You can find in any catalogue today : year 1509 – 55 different varieties, 1510 – 32, 1511 – 30, 1512 – 61, 1513 – 74.... so, we hope, it will be the widest book about the Lithuanian half-groats of 1495-1529 for noon....

one of the variants of new book cover

Compliments for such work!

Congratulations Giedrius! Please when its done tell me, I will certainly buy 3-4 for books, if possible signed ... My best wishes!

Let me add up to that! Good job!

This work has been done and our book is coming into print soon! Wе would like to express our greatest appreciation to Andrei Boiko-Gagarin for the pictures of contemporary imitations of Lithuanian half-groats.
We would also like to thank
Jury Barejša,
Serhyi Belopolskyi,
Witold Borowski,
Igor Ermachenko,
Artūras Kačinskas,
Andrej Karač,
Valdas Kavaliauskas,
Mirosław Kozdroń,
Klaudijus Kubilius,
Aleksandr Lisovskij,
Romanas Mankus,
Darius Mikalajūnas,
Mykola Oliinyk,
Alexander Petrinchik,
Ričardas Rinkevičius,
Grzegorz Romańczyk,
Vladimir Silvanionok,
Svajūnas Simaitis,
Pavel Stankevich,
Ričardas Stepovičius,
Мarcin Тchorzewski,
Łukasz Wiśniewski,
Arūnas Žebrauskas,
Dzmitry Zhdanovich
for the pictures of coins;
museum tutors
Dalia Grimalauskaitė,
Vital Sidarovič,
Jarosław Bodzek,
Andrzej Romanowski
for the opportunity to work in depositories;
numismatists
Jury Denisenko,
Audrius Kadėnas,
Ilja Shtalenkov
for consultations.
Finally our thanks are dedicated to all collectors of coins of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, whose help made this catalogue possible. We would be grateful for your comments, additions and proposals. Please, feel free to contact us by using emails below.

Dzmitry Huletski (d.hulecki@yahoo.com)
Giedrius Bagdonas (gdrs.bagdonas@gmail.com)
Mikalai Darashkevich (nik.dor@tut.by)

February 2017

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