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Denier - Matthias Corvinus
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1468-1470 |
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| Weight | 0.58 g |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | PATROnA VnGAR (Translation: Patron of Hungary) |
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Matthias Corvinus spent much of his reign financing war on multiple fronts simultaneously — against the Ottomans in the south, the Bohemian Hussite factions to the north, and periodically against his own fractious Magyar nobility. The small silver deniers issued between 1468 and 1470 fall squarely within his Bohemian campaign, during which he was elected King of Bohemia by the Catholic estates in 1469, a claim Frederick III and Pope Paul II ultimately refused to fully legitimize.
Corvinus funded these wars partly through aggressive fiscal reform, including systematic reorganization of royal mint operations — a policy that makes die consistency across this type notably variable.