Duchy of Jägerndorf ½ Groshen - Matyáš Korvín, 1477 – 1490

½ Garas from Duchy of Jägerndorf. Issued from 1477 to 1490. Struck in Silver. Measures 0 mm and weighs 1.08 g.

Obverse

Coat of arms of the king inside pearled ring. Escutcheon divided in four quarter fields: Árpádian stripes, Bohemian rampant lion with crown, Lower Lusatian bull and Lower Silesian golden eagle. Centre shield with the Corvinus family raven with a ring in its beak. (Mathias Primus Dei Gratia Rex Bohemiae (Mathias the First, by the Grace of God, King of Bohemia))

Reverse

Madonna sitting with a veil on her head, holding infant Jesus in her right arm, mint-mark in the fields on each side (Grossus Carnoviensis (Gross of Carnovia)
"Carnoviensis" refers to Carnovia, the latin name of the city of Krnov, the seat of the Duchy of Jägerndorf)