Hungary - Ferdinand I - 1526-1564 AD - 1549 - Ag denar - XF
FERDINAND.D.G.R.VNG.1545
Coat of arms
PATRONA VNGARIE
Madonna and child seated.
Weight: 0.40 gr
Diameter: 15.7 mm
Ferdinand I, (born March 10, 1503, Alcalá de Henares, Spain—died July 25, 1564, Vienna, Habsburg domain [now in Austria]), Holy Roman emperor (1558–64) and king of Bohemia and Hungary from 1526, who, with his Peace of Augsburg (1555), concluded the era of religious strife in Germany following the rise of Lutheranism by recognizing the right of territorial princes to determine the religion of their subjects. He also converted the elected crowns of Bohemia and Hungary into hereditary possessions of the house of Habsburg..