Ladislaus V — known as Ladislaus Posthumus, born after his father Albert II's death — was nominally king of Hungary from infancy, though effective power was held for years by John Hunyadi as regent. By 1455, Hunyadi was preoccupied with organizing Christian resistance against the Ottomans following the fall of Constantinople two years prior, culminating in his defense of Belgrade in 1456. The king himself died in 1457 at seventeen, almost certainly of plague, though contemporaries suspected poison.
Hungarian florins of this period maintained the high-fineness standard established by the Angevins a century earlier — a deliberate policy that kept them accepted as trade currency across Central Europe.
Ladislaus V — known as Ladislaus Posthumus, born after his father Albert II's death — was nominally king of Hungary from infancy, though effective power was held for years by John Hunyadi as regent. By 1455, Hunyadi was preoccupied with organizing Christian resistance against the Ottomans following the fall of Constantinople two years prior, culminating in his defense of Belgrade in 1456. The king himself died in 1457 at seventeen, almost certainly of plague, though contemporaries suspected poison.
Hungarian florins of this period maintained the high-fineness standard established by the Angevins a century earlier — a deliberate policy that kept them accepted as trade currency across Central Europe.