Denier - Louis I

Louis I of Hungary — known as Louis the Great — issued extensive coinage to fund his ambitious Italian campaigns, pressing Angevin dynastic claims to the Kingdom of Naples through two separate military expeditions in the 1340s and 1350s. The extremely low silver weight of this denier reflects the broader fragmentation of Hungarian petty coinage by mid-century, where small denominations circulated heavily in daily commerce while larger silver issues absorbed the prestige output of the royal mints. The ÉH and Huszár reference numbers here align this piece within the long and taxonomically complex Louis I series, which numismatists have worked to untangle across multiple overlapping emission phases.