Catalog
1 denar - Nikola III Zrinski
| Issuer | Counts of Zrinsky (Croatian States) |
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| Year | 1527-1532 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1527 - - 1528 - - 1529 - - 1530 - - 1531 - - 1532 - - |
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Nikola III Zrinski issued these denars under the authority granted to Croatian magnates during the catastrophic political vacuum following the Ottoman destruction of the Hungarian-Croatian kingdom at Mohács in 1526. The battle killed King Louis II and left the region fragmented between Habsburg claimants and Ottoman expansion, briefly allowing powerful border lords like Zrinski to exercise quasi-regal minting privileges they would not otherwise have held.
The five-year window of this issue closes precisely when Habsburg administrative consolidation began curtailing such autonomous coinage.