Florin - Matthias Corvinus

Matthias Corvinus financed his Black Army — one of the first standing mercenary forces in European history — largely through aggressive fiscal reform, including tight control over the royal mint at Buda. His florins were struck to the same Florentine weight standard that had governed Hungarian gold coinage since the Angevin reforms of the 14th century, a discipline Matthias maintained even as he drained the treasury campaigning against the Ottomans and, later, against the Habsburgs in Austria.

The decade this type spans saw Matthias conquer much of Moravia, Silesia, and Lusatia. He briefly held Vienna itself from 1485 until his death in 1490.