Hungary, Matthias Corvinus (1458-1490) denar (AR)Obv.: + M • MAThIE R • VnGARIE (Shield with Hungarian arms) Rev.: PATROn VnGARIE (Veiled Virgin Mary with Christ) Diameter: 15,3 mm Weight: 0,5 g Field: K P
When Matthias died, supossedly the saying went: 'Dead is Matthias, lost is justice.'Nick.vdw
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Judaea, First Revolt Shekel, Year 2Judaea, First Jewish War AR Shekel. Dated year 2 (AD 67/8)
O: Hebrew script read from right to left SKL ISRAL “Shekel of Israel”, the date Shin Bet, "Year Two" of the revolution, above Omer cup with beaded rim
R: Hebrew script YRUSLIM H KDOSA “Jerusalem the Holy” around sprig of three pomegranates.
This coin was minted during times of great upheaval in Judaea as well as the rest of the Roman empire.
As Jewish factions were fighting for control in Jerusalem, General Vespasian's armies invaded Galilee in 67 CE with 60,000 men as they began the effort to quell the rebellion started a year earlier. Vespasian captured the commander of Galilee, Josephus ben Matthias, in the little mountain town of Jotapata, which fell after a fierce siege of 47 days. It was the second bloodiest battle of the revolt, surpassed only by the sacking of Jerusalem, and the longest except for Jerusalem and Masada.
Driven from Galilee, Zealot rebels and thousands of refugees arrived in Judea, causing even greater political turmoil in Jerusalem.
Meanwhile, back in Rome in 68 CE, Nero commits suicide, plunging the Empire into a civil war. Galba, Otho and Vitellius would assume the purple till Vespasian, leaving the battle in Judaea to Titus, brought the matter to a conclusion in 69.Nemonater
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Netherlands, Imperial City of Kampen, Matthias, (1618 A.D.), Del.1113, AR-2/3Thaler/Gulden/28 Stuiver, Two-headed eagle stamped with a cartridge bearing the number 28, #1Netherlands, Imperial City of Kampen, Matthias, (1618 A.D.), Del.1113, AR-Gulden/28 Stuiver, Two-headed eagle stamped with a cartridge bearing the number 28, #1
avers: FLOR•ARG:CIV 28 IMP:CAMPEN, 1618 above the crown, Crowned weapons of the city of Campen.
reverse: MATTH•I•D•G•ROM•IMP•SEM•AV, Two-headed eagle stamped with a cartridge bearing the number 28, surmounted by a crown cutting the legend at 12 o'clock.
exergue: 1618//28, diameter: 39,5mm, weight: 20,0g, axis: 1h,
mint:City of Kampen, date: 1618 A.D., ref: Del.1113, AR-2/3Thaler/Gulden/28 Stuiver,
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"NETHERLANDS - IMPERIAL CITY CAMPEN - MATTHIAS,
(1612-20/03/1619):
Matthias is the third son of Maximilian II and Mary, daughter of Charles Quint. He was born in Vienna on February 24, 1557. At the expense of Spain, the States-General offered him the Netherlands in December 1577, but after the Battle of Gembloux, in January 1578, he took refuge in Antwerp before returning to Germany in 1581. His brother Rudolf II being unable to govern, he was assigned to Austria, then in 1608, Hungary and Bohemia Moravia and finally in 1611. Having no children of his union had with Anne Tyrol, he appointed as his successor his cousin Ferdinand of Styria, later Ferdinand II. Matthias died in Vienna on March 20, 1619."quadrans
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