How Far Back Can We Go? Seventh Edition! Ended At 1380 Waiting On 1379

A beauty!

I'd have to look to see what my oldest Madonna and child coin is. But the basic motif (Madonna and child with the Holy Roman Imperial symbols of the sceptre and globus cruciger) has been around on coins in one form or another for a long time, at least back to the 15th c. Hungarian denars as you noted.

The Holy Roman Empire can be very loosely defined as being of an era from the 11th to the late 18th c.

In 1848, when the war in Hungary broke out, Hungary was still very much dominated by the rule of the mostly Catholic Austrian Habsburgs (whose suppression of religious freedoms in that country was just one of many complaints that fueled the Hungarian revolution.) Even though the Revolution was not successful, the Madonna and child were gone from Hungarian coins by the 1850s, ending a 400-year run; already by 1848 when this coin was struck it was one of the few surviving European coins to still be using the Madonna and child motif.

The subsequent revival of the Madonna and child design for Ludwig II's Bavarian thalers of 1865-1871 was a very powerful political and religious statement considering the resurgent liberalism and Protestantism of a Germany increasingly dominated by Prussia at that time. (Bavaria was and still is the staunchest bastion of Catholicism in Germany.)

1847 Large Cent

Thank you! She was the penultimate addition to my 7070 (US Type set).

1846.

UK sixpence, shilling and halfcriwn:

1846 - Britain - Shilling - Victoria






1846 - Britain - Four Pence (Groat) - Victoria
Somewhat of a circulation cameo






1846 - Bavaria - Medal - Ludwig I
AE37. PCGS SP64 / Witt. 2689
ex; Adolph Hess AG (Slg. Mertens, lot #1249)

By Drentwett. Commemorates the opening of the Bahnhof Hall at Augsburg in October of 1846.

1845 Straits Settlements (East India Company)