TYPE Medieval Serbia, Despot Stefan Lazarevic (1402-27), silver reduced dinar, (Num11 type 4)
DESCRIPTION .
Obv: Ox-horned helmet (heraldic symbol of the Hrebeljanovic-Lazarevic dynasty) over sheild with one-headed eagle, Cyrillic legend DESPOUT
Rev: Christ in glory (mandorla)
REFERENCE: Jov. 41-23, Num11 4
GRADING: F+, toned, very scarce
ORDER INFO: S1353, $135
Very scarce type, associated with the late-19th c. Rudnik hoard of Despot Stefan's small coinage. Probably less than 70 specimens known, most from the said find. The Rudnik hoard, dated to shortly after the Battle of Angora (1402), was discovered in the late-19th c. and kept intact privately for almost another century before having been disclosed to the public in the mid 1980s. Its significance is that virtually all its 152 coins were of hitherto unpublished or extremely rare and misattributed types. More generally - a rare depiction of Lazarevic family heraldic symbol, the ox-horned helmet.