Denier - Louis I

Louis I of Hungary — known as "the Great" — issued this denier during a period of aggressive Angevin expansion, when the kingdom stretched from the Adriatic coast to the Black Sea following his conquest of Dalmatia and repeated campaigns into the Balkans. The series spans roughly thirteen years of an otherwise extraordinarily productive reign. His 1370 election to the Polish throne, uniting two crowns under a single ruler for the first time, had no immediate effect on Hungarian coinage policy — the mint operations continued under established arrangements without interruption.