BOHEMIA. Jan Hus, early church reformer. Circa 1370-1415. AV Medal (34mm, 9.90 g, 10h). By Michael Hohenauer. Dated 1415, though struck circa 1530. VF.

CNG Feature Auction 129
Lot: 826.
Closing Date: May 14 2025 11:00 ET

World Medals, Gold

Estimate: $ 2 000

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BOHEMIA. Jan Hus, early church reformer. Circa 1370-1415. AV Medal (34mm, 9.90 g, 10h). By Michael Hohenauer. Dated 1415, though struck circa 1530. + CREDO · VNAM · ESSE · SCAN · CATHO · ECCLE/ IOAN HVS, capped bust right / + CENTVM · REVOLV · (AN)IS · DEO REDD · RO(EM) :/ · ET · MICHI · · CON · NAT, Jan Hus burning at stake; 1415 in right field. Katz 69. Edge marks and filing, wavy flan, scratches. VF. Very rare in gold.

From the Drewry Family Collection. Ex Coin Galleries (10 April 1985), lot 615 (illustrated on front cover).

Jan Hus was an ordained Catholic priest in Bohemia in the 14th and 15th centuries who also taught at Charles University in Prague. Hus frequently preached against various aspects of the Catholic Church in Bohemia and as a result pope Alexander V excommunicated him but declined to enforce the excommunication. Hus’ continued opposition to the Bohemian Catholic Church under Alexander V’s successor the Antipope John XXIII led to the excommunication actually being enforced and Hus was forced to flee. Eventually, Hus was tricked into returning to present his dissenting views to the church and he was arrested and eventually burned at the stake for heresy. Hus’ views did not die with him as his followers, the Hussites, took up his cause and refused to allow a Catholic monarch to sit on the Bohemian throne. The Hussites defeated five papal crusades that were sent against them in an eleven-year period from 1420-1431. Bohemia and Moravia would continue to be majority Hussite until the 1620s.

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