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1570 Hungary Silver Madonna Denar Transylvania Mint Sovietski Collecti - $89 (King of Prussia, PA)
Valley Forge Circle near Rt 23/Valley Forge Rd
condition:
like new
make / manufacturer:
Transylvania Mint
model name / number:
Sovietski Collection
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1570 Hungary Silver Madonna & Child Denar - Transylvania Mint - Sovietski Collection w/ COA Per AI.
Medieval Hungarian Silver Denar (minted 1570 under the Habsburg Dynasty - a modern, dime-sized silver piece featuring the Madonna and Child,
The Silver Content: A 1/10 oz piece .999 pure silver round (which has a diameter of roughly 16mm to 18mm—almost identical to a US dime).
Packaging: in a small plastic protective capsule – copying The "Original" Dime-Sized Piece
The Sovietski Collection was a highly popular mail-order catalog business based out of San Diego, California, that operated primarily from the 1990s through the mid-2000s. Because they loved historical imports, the "modern piece" from them is purportedly a genuine medieval coin packaged for modern buyers with a Certificate of Authenticity (COA).
Features of the Piece:
• Size: Around 15mm to 16mm in diameter (just a fraction smaller and thinner than a modern US dime).
• Weight: Very light and thin—typically weighing about 0.5 grams.
• The History: This coin was hand-struck over 400 years ago during Europe's late Renaissance. At the time, Hungary was locked in a brutal war with the Ottoman Empire. The King of Hungary deliberately put the Madonna and Child on these dime-sized silver coins as a declaration of their Christian faith during the conflict.
• How to read the back: date on the back of the coin 1570, means it is an absolute classic; coin was minted during the reign of Maximilian II, who was the Holy Roman Emperor and the King of Hungary from 1564 to 1576. Because these coins were struck by hand using a hammer and a metal die, the date was often stamped slightly off-center, or the metal has worn down over the last 456 years.
• The Sovietski Premium: Since it came out of that famous San Diego catalog, it represents a very specific era of 1990s collecting.
What looks like an "opened L" on the left and an "A" on the right is actually a stylistic, Medieval Latin abbreviation. It doesn't spell letters in the modern sense; it is a monogram for the city where the coin was made.
Means "C" and "H" wrapped together, or "C - A", which stands for Cibinium (the Latin name for the city of Hermannstadt, which is modern-day Sibiu in Transylvania, Romania).
• The Rarity Jump: Most Hungarian silver denars from 1570 feature the common "K - B" mint mark from the Kremnica mint. Finding a Cibinium (Hermannstadt) mint mark makes this coin significantly scarcer. Provincial wartime mints had much lower production runs than the main royal mints.
With that crisp edge and that rarer Transylvania mint mark, it is a truly excellent piece of Renaissance history. It’s the perfect marriage of a scarce 450-year-old coin and a great piece of 1990s Americana nostalgia from the Sovietski Collection.
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CASH ONLY! NO MONEY TRANSFERS OF ANY KIND!
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