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Florin - Louis II
| Issuer | Kingdom of Hungary |
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| Year | 1517 |
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| Reference(s) | ÉH#659, H#829 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | LVDOVICI : D · G : - ·R : VNGARIE · ¤ · (Translation: Lajos, by the grace of God, King of Hungary) |
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Louis II ascended the Hungarian throne at age ten in 1516, and the florins struck under his name from the outset were largely the business of regents and court factions rather than any royal direction. Hungary at this moment was caught between Ottoman pressure from the south and Habsburgs jostling for dynastic position — the florins kept flowing partly because Italian and German banking houses demanded payment in gold, not politics. Louis would be dead at Mohács nine years later, drowned in retreat at twenty.