KREMNICKÁ MINCOVŇA V OBDOBÍ VEĽKEJ HOSPODÁRSKEJ KRÍZY A V 30. ROKOCH 20. STOROČIA

The study is devoted to the hitherto little studied problem of the development of the Kremnica Mint during the great economic crisis of 1930–1934, and the subsequent post-crisis period up to 1938. The author, whose study is based on more than two years of archive research, considers mainly the economic development of a business with a monopoly on the production of small coins for circulation in inter-war Czechoslovakia. Research has shown that during the great economic crisis, the economic development of the Kremnica Mint substantially differed from that of other Czechoslovak businesses. In contrast to the general economic development in Czechoslovakia, the years of the great economic crisis brought the mint stability and prosperity. The crisis affected the mint later, in 1934–1936, during the post-crisis period characterized by gradual recovery of the economy. The business definitively overcame the unfavourable development in 1938 thanks to the general revival of the Czechoslovak economy.