Description
Country or authority: Kingdom of Hungary
Year or date range: 1539
Denomination: 1 denar
Composition: Silver
Ruler or portrait: Ferdinand I; no royal portrait. Madonna and Child on reverse.
Mint or mintmark: Körmöcbánya (Kremnitz; modern Kremnica), K-B
Catalogue references: Huszár 935
Obverse description: Quartered, curved-sided shield with a small central Austrian shield. Hungarian bars and double cross occupy the upper quarters; Dalmatian heads and the Bohemian lion appear below. Legend: FERDINAND · D · G · R · VNG · 1539, with the date in the outer inscription.
Reverse description: Crowned, draped Madonna seated facing, holding the infant on the viewer’s left. Mint letters K–B flank the figure. Legend: PATRONA VNGARIE, with pellets and a rosette below.
