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5 Ducats - Ferdinand I Life of II Ulászló
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1544 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1526-1754) |
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| Obverse description | Crowned child effigy of Ludovicus (Louis II) seated facing slightly left upon a cushion, depicted in full royal regalia with draped robes, rendered in a naïve but expressive hammered relief characteristic of early sixteenth-century Hungarian medallic art. The circular Latin legend surrounds the seated figure, reading LVDOVICVS · FILIVS · R · VNGA · 7 · BOHEMI · 1508 CORONATVS, commemorating Louis II as son of the King of Hungary and Bohemia and recording his coronation year of 1508. The word CORONATVS appears in the lower field beneath the figure, reinforcing the coronation theme. The overall composition references the commemorative medallic tradition of the Jagiellonian court. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a nine-line Latin commemorative inscription filling the entire field, dated 1544 at the top, followed by a elegiac couplet lamenting the fall of Buda and the martial glory of Hungary that might have been preserved had the young king Louis II survived. The text reads: 1544 · · BVDA · POTENS · ET · PANNONV · GENS · MARTIA · REGNI · QVOD · FVIT · ESSET · SI · VIVERET · ISTE · · PUER, with the initials V G appearing at the base, likely identifying the medallist or issuing authority. The inscription is set in well-spaced Roman capitals with decorative stops between words, typical of humanist Renaissance medallic epigraphy. This reverse functions as a memorial epitaph to Louis II, who perished at the Battle of Mohács in 1526, and was struck under Ferdinand I as a retrospective commemorative piece. |
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