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.
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.