Jaelus' Hungarian Patterns

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Like the previous 1942 pattern, this iteration also uses the same reduced size design from the 1939 5 Pengő, however, the date has been changed to 1943. The planchet has a slightly increased diameter (6.93g, 33mm x 3.7mm), but the dies were not enlarged, resulting in an example with a wide rim. The planchet itself, while 3mm narrower than the eventual business strike, was also nearly a full gram heavier, making for a very thick example with the appearance of a piedfort.

Unlike the 1942 example, this specimen has a decorative edge. The edge decoration is extremely interesting as it was most likely intended as a “sampler” for evaluation. It uses four different styles of edge decoration, each style covering a quarter of the edge, however, the edge is not well-struck and it is difficult to make out some of the decoration types. This is quite possibly the very first pattern to be produced by the Hungarian mint that bears a probaveret mark, though of note it is hyphenated as “Próba-Veret” on this example.