2 Deniers - Jogaila

Jogaila had converted to Christianity and been crowned King of Poland just months before this issue, uniting the Polish and Lithuanian crowns through his marriage to Queen Jadwiga in 1386. These deniers belong to the earliest phase of his dual rule, struck while he was simultaneously managing Catholic conversion across Lithuania — the last pagan state in Europe to formally Christianize. The tiny silver content reflects chronic metal shortages across the Baltic region throughout the late fourteenth century.