TYPE Medieval Serbia, Despot Stefan Lazarevic (1402-27), silver reduced dinar (Num11 type 1) DESCRIPTION . Obv: Cross with pellets in quarters, Cyrillic legend [+DES]POT STEFAN aorund Rev: Two-headed eagle, pellets to sides REFERENCE: Jov. 41-24, Num11 1, SNS I-194 GRADING: AVF, typically uneven strike, lightly toned, very rare ORDER INFO: S1467, $175 Very rare type, associated with the late-19th c. Rudnik hoard of Despot Stefan's small coinage (variant with dots in fields of the cross); unknown as a type before, with its publication (1988) there were only 6 known specimens; the present total is considered to be under 15. 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 Its significance is that virtually all its 152 coins were of hitherto unpublished or extremely rare and misattributed types.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 and early depiction of the Serbian royal symbol, the double-headed eagle.