Denier - Matthias Corvinus

Matthias Corvinus reorganized Hungarian royal finances aggressively in the 1460s, centralizing mint operations and standardizing the small silver coinage to fund his Black Army — the first standing mercenary force in Central European history. The denier issues of this decade are directly tied to that fiscal restructuring.

ÉH#560 corresponds to a specific emission distinguished in Unger's corpus from the broader H#712 grouping. At under half a gram, these pieces circulated hard and survivors in clean condition are genuinely scarce.