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2 Florins - Matthias II
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1614-1618 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Full-length effigy of King Matthias II standing facing right, crowned and robed in royal vestments over armour, holding an orb in his left hand and a scepter in his right. The figure breaks the inner circle of the coin, with the mintmark (K-B for Kremnitz) divided on either side. The legend surrounds the effigy along the outer border in Latin script. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Matthias II secured the Hungarian throne in 1608 largely through a noble revolt he himself organized against his own brother, Rudolf II — an arrangement formalized in the Peace of Vienna, which also guaranteed Protestant religious freedoms that the Habsburgs would spend the next century trying to claw back. His Hungarian coronation required explicit concessions to the Diet that no previous Habsburg had been forced to accept.
The double florin denomination in this period was primarily an instrument of trade rather than domestic circulation, moving along the Ottoman frontier commercial routes where Hungarian gold commanded reliable premiums.