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Denier - Matthias Corvinus
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1458-1460 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Within a beaded inner circle, a quartered shield bearing the Árpád dynastic stripes of Hungary occupies the central field. The shield is rendered in the characteristic medieval Hungarian heraldic style, with alternating horizontal bars in the sinister half and a plain field in the dexter half. A circular legend in Gothic uncial letterforms surrounds the inner circle. The coin exhibits the irregular flan and characteristic flat strike typical of mid-fifteenth century Hungarian hammered billon coinage. |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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Matthias Corvinus came to the Hungarian throne in 1458 at age fourteen, elected king by the lesser nobility as a deliberate counterweight to Habsburg ambitions. These early deniers, struck in the first two years of his reign before his monetary reforms consolidated output, were produced under a billon standard already degraded by decades of instability under his predecessor László V.
ÉH#553 distinguishes this short emission from the longer Corvinus denier series that followed.