High Middle Ages · Europe · Technology
1278
Bohemian silver mines at Kutna Hora discovered
1278
Prospectors struck rich silver veins in the hills southeast of Prague, sparking a mining rush that would make Kutna Hora the second city of Bohemia and flood central Europe with silver groschen. The mines underwrote the power of Czech kings and financed Gothic churches that rivaled Prague's own. The Prague groschen, minted from Kutna Hora silver, became one of the most trusted currencies in medieval Europe.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.