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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 2212908, member: 56653&quot;]Just got a new toy - a digital microscope/camera - so I decided to try it on some really small and apparently meaningless coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]432467[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5"><b>Janos Hunyadi &quot;The White Knight&quot; (as Governor of Hungary, 1446-1453) , AE14mm 0.79g billon denar (F+)</b></font></p><p><br /></p><p>AV: TEMPOR · IO · GVBER ·, Patriarchal cross, B - */n (privy mark) in fields.</p><p><br /></p><p>REV: + M · REGnI · VnGARIE ·, Shield with Arpadian stripes.</p><p><br /></p><p>REF: Huszar 618, Pohl 175-1, Unger 485a var. obv. legend, Rethy II 156, <b>The type was struck in 1446 (per Pohl, Huszar &amp; Unger). This privy mark was struck in Buda (now Budapest) under a collective mark (per Pohl). Huszar/Pohl rarity rating 6.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>If Janos Hunyadi sounds familiar is perhaps because he was a major figure of middle/eastern Europe in the Balkan crusades against the Ottoman Empire in the 15th Cent. and his system of vassality and alliances replaced Sigismund (Zsigmond) de Louxembourg&#039;s after his death in 1437. At his death in August 1456, after the great victory against Mehmet II at Belgrade, Pope Callixtus III lamented his passing with the words &quot;The light of the world passed...&quot; </p><p>His son, Matthias &quot;Corvinus&quot; Hunyadi would be crowned as King of Hungary by the Diet in January 1458, solely on the strength of his father&#039;s reputation and would go down in history as Hungary&#039;s greatest king.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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