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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 7764716, member: 56653&quot;]No longer Monday, but here is an interesting piece: an inflationary (possibly irregular/counterfeit) Transylvanian denar for one of the last &#039;crusading&#039; figures in the Balkans, Vladislav/Ulaszlo Jagiello &quot;of Varna&quot; as King of Poland and Hungary (1434/40-1444):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1331408[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The type is irregular and not in the standard references (Huszar, Rethy, Unger, Pohl) but the privy marks are known for Kronstadt in 1440. Possibly this is an obverse-reverse over-strike.</p><p><br /></p><p>Vladislav was one of the leaders of the anti-Ottoman &#039;Varna Crusade&#039; of 1443-4, together with Janos Hunyadi and Giuliano Cesarini. The operation was a Papal venture executed mainly by Polish, Hungarian, Wallachian (Mircea II of Wallachia, the older brother of Vlad III Dracula lead the Wallachian cavalry) and Bulgarian (Fruzin Shishman of Bulgaria lead a detachment of Bulgarian malcontents and Transylvanian warriors) forces, with the support of Burgundian and Italian logistics and finance. It ended in disaster in November 1444 with the utter defeat of the Christian forces and the death of Vladislav Jagiello and Cardinal Cesarini.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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