Aufgrund einer persönlichen Mitteilung aus Ungarn habe ich nun den Text auch in englischer Sprache ins Forum hinzugefügt.
Dear friends of medieval coins,
Since I also received a personal message from Hungary, I have now added the text in English to the forum.
A peculiar denarius by Matthias Corvinus (Hunyadi) (1458-1490) has appeared, which I can not find in the very comprehensive work of Lajos HUSZÁR.
This type of denar should be somewhere between the numbers 716 and 726?
The front side (by the way, the coat of arms fits exactly) with the lettering:
".M.MATHIE._ _ VNGARIE." differs only by a point instead of a cross before the first "M" and would be a variant to Hu. 716, 717 or 722.
Significantly differences are there on the back of the coin and already in the inscription:
MAGROn hVNGA * At the end of the typeface, a five-part rosette made up of five trefoils. The designations on both sides of the madonna with child, a Gothic "C" and a lily, are only watchable in this form at the Hu 717. Here, however, the inscription would be PATROn VnGAR.
Well, the transcription could be a spelling mistake: MAGROn instead of PATROn. That would be just two letters. But none of these denars shows such a big rosette at the end of the writing!
The denarius shows the best silver quality, so I would rather exclude a fake.
Size: 16 mm
Weight: 0.69g
Have several pieces of these denarii and another is slightly different from the edited pieces. However, the difference is not as clear as in the piece shown now.
Does anyone of you have the Unger?
Are there such denars in other literature?