Denier - Ladislaus V

Ladislaus V — Ladislaus Posthumus — was literally born after his father Albert II died, delivered by caesarean section in 1440 and immediately thrust into one of Central Europe's most contested successions. Hungary spent the first decade of his reign in civil war between his Habsburger guardians and the rival Jagiellonian claimant Władysław III, who died at Varna in 1444. These deniers, struck once Ladislaus finally exercised nominal rule, represent a monetary system still recovering from years of administrative disruption under the regent John Hunyadi, who never fully relinquished real power.