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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 774834, member: 57463&quot;]<b>Saint Mary Mother Patron of Hungary</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The medieval denars carried the same devices and legend.&nbsp; Madonna and Child; Mary Patron of Hungary.&nbsp; On the other side, the shield of state.&nbsp; The vertical bar is the Danube.&nbsp; The three horizontals are the rivers, Tisza, Drava, and Szaba.&nbsp; I do not know the names of the three mountains.&nbsp; The crown of St. Stephen is at the top.&nbsp; Sometimes the cross is bent to show when the crown was stolen and hidden in a trunk.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Other peoples, of course, sought and seek the protection of Mary Mother of God.&nbsp; (The Ukrainian cossacks, the Zaparosti of Taras Bulba, are another example.)&nbsp; It is not so much that Hungarians were closer to the church than the Austrians.&nbsp; It is just their patron, like St Mark for Venice, or for that matter Jesus for the Eastern Roman Empire (Constantinople). In any case, religious themes and symbols are ubiquitous.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I wonder why the coin was struck. The Hapsburgs had no special reason to strike coins for Hungary, any more than they would for any of the lands abbreviated around the rim.&nbsp; It may be that the mintage was intended to buy things in Hungary for Hapsburg estates local there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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