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Triton XXIII 14-15 Jan 2020
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HUNGARY, Magyar Királyság (Kingdom of Hungary). Wladislaw I. 1440-1444. AV Aranyforint (22mm, 3.56 g, 5h). Nagyszeben (Hermannstadt) mint; Miklós Pfeffersach, mintmaster. Struck 1441. + WLADISLAVS · D · G · R · VnGARIЄ, coat-of-arms / · S · LA DISL AVS RЄX ·, St. Ladislaus I standing facing, holding ax and globus cruciger; h and (PR) flanking. Grierson, Coins of Medieval Europe C23 var. (moneyer); Lengyel 22/7a; Pohl F1-1; Huszár 597; Friedberg 13. Light deposits, some die rust. Good VF.
From the Richard A. Jourdan Collection of Medieval European Coins. Ex Karl Stephens FPL 172 (2011), no. 229.
'The only redeeming feature of East European coinage in the fifteenth century was in fact the Hugarian ducat forint, which was struck in great quantities throughout... Hungarian ducats circulated throughout Europe, so that we find them as far afield as the British Isles, whether in the accounts of Celys, wool merchants trading the Low Countries, or in those of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, who kept the king supplied with them for gambling in the evenings.' Grierson, pp. 212-3.
From the Richard A. Jourdan Collection of Medieval European Coins. Ex Karl Stephens FPL 172 (2011), no. 229.
'The only redeeming feature of East European coinage in the fifteenth century was in fact the Hugarian ducat forint, which was struck in great quantities throughout... Hungarian ducats circulated throughout Europe, so that we find them as far afield as the British Isles, whether in the accounts of Celys, wool merchants trading the Low Countries, or in those of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, who kept the king supplied with them for gambling in the evenings.' Grierson, pp. 212-3.