Abstract
The article is the output of the research carried out in the Italian libraries, archives and museums. It is focused on the role of Bohemian florins among coins circulated in late medieval Italy.
The author analyses gold coin hoards and compares them with the evidence of written sources (the diaries of Italian merchants, the pilgrims' book of Siena, papal registers relating the collection of tithes and other papal revenues). The analysis is supplemented with data on the circulation of Bohemian and Hungarian florins in the territory of today's Germany.