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Denier - Sigismund
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1387-1389 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field features a bold pattée cross rendered in high relief, its arms expanding toward a plain inner circle that separates the design from the surrounding legend. The cross is set within a beaded or rope-like inner border, typical of Hungarian medieval hammered coinage. The circumferential legend in uncial Latin characters reads + MOnET SIGISMVnDI, identifying the coin as the money of Sigismund. The flan is irregular and slightly convex, consistent with hand-struck production of the late 14th century. |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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Sigismund of Luxembourg seized the Hungarian throne in 1387 by leveraging his marriage to Queen Mary, who had been captured by Croatian nobles the previous year. His early coinage — this denier among it — was struck under politically precarious conditions, with rival claimants and baronial factions actively contesting his authority well into the 1390s. The ÉH#448 attribution places this piece within the first phase of his extraordinarily long reign, which would ultimately run to 1437.