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Denier - Ladislaus V
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1451-1452 |
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| Currency | Florin (1310-1540) |
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| Obverse description | Facing bust of King Ladislaus V in royal regalia, dividing a mintmark on either side of the effigy. The portrait is rendered in the crude but characteristic hammered style of mid-fifteenth-century Hungarian coinage. A circular Latin legend surrounds the central device, reading M · LADISLAI · R · VNGA, identifying the issuer as László, King of Hungary. The field is flat and unadorned, with the legend positioned close to the coin's irregular periphery. |
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| Mintage | ND (1451-1452) K - G |
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Ladislaus V — Ladislaus Posthumus — was literally born after his father Albert II died, delivered by caesarean section in 1440 and immediately plunged into a succession crisis that split Hungary between his regency supporters and the rival kingship of Władysław III of Poland. He never truly governed independently; his entire reign was mediated first by regents, then by John Hunyadi. These deniers from 1451–52 were struck during Hunyadi's regency, a period of near-constant Ottoman pressure following the disaster at Varna in 1444.
At 0.36g, the billon content was already severely debased by this point in Hungarian coinage history.