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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 9594388, member: 87809&quot;]<b>S</b>igi<b>s</b>mund of Luxemburg</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>1 Forint</p><p>Sigismund’s gold forints fall into two groups: early issues (1387 – 1401) bear a royal coat of arms quartering the horizontal stripes of the Hungary shield with the German eagle, later issues (1402 – 1437) quartering the stripes of Hungary with the lion of Bohemia.</p><p><br /></p><p>20 mm, 3.520 g</p><p>Körmöcbánya (Kremnitz), not dated, struck between 1387 – 1389; no mintmark; Monogram G = Royal Treasurer Jakcs György.</p><p><br /></p><p>A royal treasurer was a person responsible for the income, at least for some type of income, of the kingdom. This position was held by those who were in charge of the royal and imperial mines; the supreme authority of the Hungarian mining towns is still called this way.</p><p>Pohl D1-1; HMC (Lengyel) 17/7; Unger (ÉH) II 445a; Huszár 572; Frynas H.27.1;</p><p><br /></p><p>The best reference for attributing Hungarian gold coins are Pohl and Lengyel (300 pages only for gold). Lengyel number 17 has the Brandenburg eagle in the second and third shields without a mintmark.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: +<b>S</b>IGI<b>S</b>MVNDI•D•G•R•VnGARIE Fourfold shield of Hungary and Bohemia with Árpád stripes twice and Brandenburg eagles twice in inner pearl circle</p><p>Rv.: <b>S</b>• LADI<b>S</b> LAV<b>S</b>•REX Saint King László of Hungary crowned and with glory standing with light helbard and orb; monogram G at right</p><p><br /></p><p>The eagle on the lower left seems to be peeking out of the last Árpád stripe above&nbsp; - or it is trying to hang itself<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie10" alt=":oops:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1522504[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1522505[/ATTACH]</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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