Mate Kovačević pointed out that he wrote the book concisely, focusing especially on forgeries and cover-ups within recent Croatian history, whose protagonists are mostly followers of former South-Communist historiography.
Zlatarovo zlato is the first novel by August Šenoa, written in 1871. It is also the first Croatian historical novel, which tells about the history of Zagreb in the sixteenth century (after the Gupceva Peasant's Revolt).