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Florin - Louis II
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1516-1518 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | Saint Ladislaus (László I) depicted as a crowned, standing full-length figure facing forward, robed in royal vestments with a long beard, holding a patriarchal cross in his right hand and an orb in his left. The mint mark appears divided on either side of the central figure within a beaded inner circle. The date appears within the surrounding Latin legend, which runs along the outer border of the coin. |
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| Mintage | 1516 n - at - - 1516 n - G - - 1518 n - G - - |
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Louis II inherited the Hungarian throne at age ten in 1516, and the florins struck in his name during these early years were issued under regency governance — real power sat with the council of magnates, not the child-king. Hungary at this moment was bleeding revenue fighting the Ottoman advance, and the florin's gold content was already under strain from decades of fiscal pressure preceding Mohács. Louis himself would die fleeing that battlefield in 1526, drowned in his armor at age twenty.