John Zápolya struck these florins during the most fractured period in Hungarian numismatic history — simultaneously recognized as king by the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman and contested by the Habsburg claimant Ferdinand I, who held Buda for a brief stretch in 1527 before being expelled. Both men issued royal Hungarian coinage concurrently, creating a genuine dual-king situation with two competing mint outputs. Zápolya's issues during this window were struck primarily at Košice and Sibiu, the eastern mints that remained under his control.
The ÉH 687 attribution places this among the earlier florins of his reign, before his 1528 flight to Poland following Ferdinand's temporary military gains.
John Zápolya struck these florins during the most fractured period in Hungarian numismatic history — simultaneously recognized as king by the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman and contested by the Habsburg claimant Ferdinand I, who held Buda for a brief stretch in 1527 before being expelled. Both men issued royal Hungarian coinage concurrently, creating a genuine dual-king situation with two competing mint outputs. Zápolya's issues during this window were struck primarily at Košice and Sibiu, the eastern mints that remained under his control.
The ÉH 687 attribution places this among the earlier florins of his reign, before his 1528 flight to Poland following Ferdinand's temporary military gains.