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1 Garas - Miklós III Zrinyi/Nikola III Zrinski Gvozdansko
| Issuer | Zrinsky, Counts of |
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| Year | 1527 |
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| Value | 1 Groschen |
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| Reverse description | The armorial achievement of the Zrinski family, depicting the family crest with a standing bird of prey (rook), rendered in a bold hammered style within a beaded inner circle. The heraldic device occupies the majority of the central field. A Latin circumscription identifying the issuing count encircles the shield, separated from the central design by a beaded border. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Nikola III Zrinski struck this issue at Gvozdansko in 1527, the same year the Croatian nobility was negotiating its position between two rival claimants to the Hungarian throne — Habsburg Ferdinand I and the Ottoman-backed János Szapolyai. The Zrinski family, entrenched defenders of the Croatian frontier against Ottoman expansion, were among the most powerful magnates to back Ferdinand, a decision that shaped the dynasty's trajectory for generations.
Private minting by Croatian magnates of this period is exceptionally rare in the documentary record, making Gvozdansko-struck pieces among the most historically loaded coins to survive from the post-Mohács collapse of the medieval Hungarian kingdom.