MEDIEVAL KINGDOM OF BOHEMIA 1/2 GROSCHEN 1516-26 CITY OF SCHWEIDNITZS(Świdnica),LOUIS II KING OF HUNGARY(1516-1526 CE),Obverse:Crown with CIVITAS SWIEN date around.Reverse:Eagle with LVDOVICVS VN ET BO around (Louis of Hungary and Bohemia).Ludwig Jagiellon,Crown in circle,lettering around,Script:Latin (Carolingian)Lettering:+LVDOVICVS.R.VN.ET.BO,Translation:+LVDOVICVS.R[ex].VN[garie].ET.BO[hemie]Ludwig, King of Hungary and Bohemia,Reverse,Eagle in circle,lettering around,Script:Latin (Carolingian)Issuer:City of Schweidnitz (Silesia),Period:Free city,Lettering:+CIVITAS SWIEN date,Translation:+CIVITAS.SWIEN City of Świdnica/Schweidnitz,Edge,Smooth,Mint:Schweidnitz, modern-day Swidnica,Poland

WEIGHT:g
SIZE:mm
METAL:SILVER
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  In 1526, the city of Swidnica in modern Poland was part of the Kingdom of Bohemia, of which Louis II of Hungary was king. With Louis’s death at the Battle of Mohacs on 29 August of that same year, Bohemia and Swidnica passed to his brother-in-law the Hapsburg Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I. This coin therefore had to have been struck prior to the calamity of Mohacs and before it passed from Hungarian into Austrian hands.