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Florin - Matthias II
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1611-1613 |
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| Value | 1 Florin (Forint) (3.5) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Matthias II secured the Hungarian crown in 1608 only after agreeing to sweeping concessions to the Diet — restoring noble privileges, guaranteeing Protestant freedoms, and removing Habsburg troops from the kingdom. The florins struck under his name during 1611–1613 belong to a reign defined less by royal authority than by managed compromise, issued from mints operating under conditions negotiated with the very estates the king nominally ruled.
The ÉH#826 attribution places this firmly within a well-documented but thinly circulated type. Kremnitz was the dominant Hungarian gold mint of the period, and output from these years was absorbed quickly by war financing against the Ottomans.