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Denier - Sigismund
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1427-1437 |
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| Weight | 0.76 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Reverse description | Central shield bearing the arms of Hungary, consisting of seven horizontal barry stripes (four red and three silver) in the traditional fess pattern, enclosed within a pointed oval or vesica-shaped inner border. The shield is rendered in the flat, stylised manner characteristic of hammered medieval Hungarian deniers. The surrounding circular legend in Gothic uncial lettering is set between a beaded inner and outer border, completing the heraldic composition. |
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Sigismund of Luxembourg spent much of the 1420s and 1430s consumed by the Hussite Wars in Bohemia, a conflict that drained Hungarian treasury resources and forced repeated adjustments to the coinage. The deniers of this period are notably lighter than earlier issues, reflecting fiscal pressure rather than any formal debasement decree. Sigismund was simultaneously Holy Roman Emperor from 1433, making him one of the few rulers whose Hungarian issues circulated within a broader imperial framework during his own lifetime.