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Obol anonymous

Issuer Hungary
Year 1501-1526
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Currency Florin (1310-1540)
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Obverse script Latin
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Edge Plain
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The Hungarian obol circulating in these decades was struck under a royal treasury increasingly hollowed out by Ottoman pressure and noble resistance to taxation. Vladislaus II and Louis II both issued anonymous obols precisely because attributing small change to a specific reign carried little administrative value when fiscal collapse was the operative concern. The Mohács disaster of 1526 — which killed Louis II and effectively ended medieval Hungary — makes coins from this terminal window historically terminal in a different sense too.

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