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Denier - Vladislaus II
| Issuer | Royal Hungarian Mint under Vladislaus II |
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| Year | 1498-1503 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse lettering | M· WLADISLAI · R · VNGARIE · (Translation: Money of Ulászló, King of Hungary) |
| Reverse description | Central field depicts the standing frontal figure of the Virgin Mary as Patrona Hungariae, crowned and robed, holding the Christ Child on her left arm while her right arm is extended, set within a beaded inner circle. The figure is rendered in the late Gothic style characteristic of Hungarian royal coinage of the early sixteenth century. Mint marks flanking the figure identify the issuing workshop and the responsible mint master. The surrounding Latin legend PATRON VNGARI, abbreviated and separated by stops, proclaims the Virgin as Patron of Hungary, a devotional motif standard on Hungarian deniers of this period. |
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Vladislaus II — the Bohemian king elected to the Hungarian throne in 1490 largely because the magnates wanted a weak ruler — presided over a systematic dismantling of Matthias Corvinus's centralized fiscal apparatus. Royal revenue collapsed as nobles reclaimed tax exemptions, and the mint output from this period reflects that institutional decay: small silver denominations were struck inconsistently across multiple Hungarian mint facilities, producing the die variation spread visible in the divergent reference numbers this type carries.
The ÉH#635A and H#807A variants suggest at least one documented obverse or reverse die distinction recognized by Unger and Huszár independently.