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1/2 Groshen - Matyáš Korvín
| Issuer | Jägerndorf, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1477-1490 |
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| Currency | Groschen |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents an enthroned Madonna, veiled, seated facing, cradling the infant Jesus in her right arm in the manner typical of late-medieval Marian devotional imagery. The composition is contained within the coin's irregular flan, with the mint mark appearing in the field to either side of the central figure. The rendering is characteristic of hammered coinage of the Silesian duchy mints, exhibiting a somewhat stylised, flat relief. The encircling legend identifies the denomination and mint of issue. |
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| Reverse lettering | GROSSVSCARnOVIEnSIS I S (Translation: Grossus Carnoviensis (Gross of Carnovia) `Carnoviensis` refers to Carnovia, the latin name of the city of Krnov, the seat of the Duchy of Jägerndorf) |
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Jägerndorf (now Krnov, Czech Republic) passed to Matthias Corvinus of Hungary in 1474 following his successful Silesian campaigns against the Jagiellonian-backed opposition. The duchy was administered under Hungarian suzerainty for the remainder of his reign, and coinage struck here during this period reflects that political subordination — a Silesian mint producing under the authority of a Hungarian king whose territorial ambitions in Bohemia and its dependencies consumed the last decade and a half of his life. Matthias died in 1490, and Hungarian control of Jägerndorf dissolved shortly after.