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Obol - Vladislaus I
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1444 |
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| Weight | 0.59 g |
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| Obverse description | The twofold Hungarian shield (barry of eight, impaling the Árpád stripes) displayed in the center of the field, flanked on either side by mintmark letters without a crown above the shield. The design is struck in characteristic hammered fashion on an irregular flan, with the shield rendered in relief within a simple beaded border. |
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| Reverse description | The Jagiellonian eagle displayed in the center of the field, facing forward with wings spread, rendered in a bold heraldic style typical of mid-15th century Hungarian hammered coinage. The eagle's plumage is indicated by incised feather lines, and the design fills the flan within an uneven beaded border. |
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Vladislaus I — Władysław III of Poland ruling Hungary as a dual monarch — died at Varna in November 1444, cut down during the disastrous crusade against the Ottomans he had been persuaded to launch despite a recently signed truce. He was twenty years old. Coins struck in his name circulated in a kingdom that would spend the next three years without a confirmed king, the interregnum resolved only when János Hunyadi finally accepted Matthias Corvinus's eventual succession.
The billon content of this issue reflects Hungary's chronic silver shortages of the 1440s, a problem Hunyadi's regency would struggle to address for years after Varna.