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Florin - Vladislaus II
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1490-1506 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | · S · LADISLA VS · REX :· · (Translation: Saint László King) |
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Vladislaus II — Vladislas Jagiellon, elected king after Matthias Corvinus died without a legitimate heir in 1490 — presided over a systematic dismantling of the centralized Hungarian state Matthias had built. The powerful Magyar nobility extracted sweeping concessions in exchange for their electoral support, and royal finances deteriorated sharply throughout his reign. Gold florins continued to be struck to the established Corvinus weight standard, but the fiscal machinery behind them was increasingly hollow.
The ÉH 593 attribution places this issue within the Buda mint's output during that sixteen-year window, a period when Hungarian gold remained internationally credible even as the kingdom's administrative coherence collapsed ahead of the Ottoman advance that would culminate at Mohács in 1526.