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Saint Kinga of Hungary non-ferrous collector coin BU 2024

Remembering the saints with collector coins. A wonderful gift for those who love history and church history!

állapot:
Archivált
denomination:
3 000
edge:
BU
date of issue:
2024.07.24.
material:
Színesfém
fineness:
Cu75Ni4Zn21
issue limit:
5000
diameter:
22 mm
weight:
4,20 g
designer:
Soltra E. Tamás
SKU: KC032024-10

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Description

Saint Kinga is the patroness of salt miners. She was the first child of Hungarian King Béla IV and Byzantine princess Maria Laskarina. Her siblings included Saint Margaret of Hungary and Blessed Yolanda. She was the wife of Bolesław V, High Duke of Poland. She is the patron saint of Poland and Lithuania.
Saint Kinga was deeply religious from an early age, leading her to take a vow of chastity, which she also upheld during her marriage. In 1241, she supported the struggle against the Mongol invasion with her whole dowry. After the Mongol invasion, together with her husband she opened a salt mine in Wieliczka near Kraków, with miners also brought in from Hungary. This is also the root of the most famous legend associated with Saint Kinga: the story of her engagement ring which was dropped into a salt mine in the Máramaros region and was later miraculously found by miners in the Wieliczka salt mine. Using the income from the salt mine, she built monasteries, churches and hospitals, including the monastery at Ószandec (present-day Stary Sacz, Poland), where she resided after her husband’s death and remained in contemplative prayer until her own death..

Front: The front of the coin shows an image of Saint Kinga of the House of Árpád, based on the sculpture by Dávid Tóth, with a lily in her left hand. To the left of her is a ring with a set of vertical lines extending upwards to the edge of the coin and the stylized image of the entryway to a salt mine below. To the left of the lines is the vertical legend “ÁRPÁD-HÁZI SZENT KINGA” (Saint Kinga of the House of Árpád). “MAGYARORSZÁG” (Hungary) is located on the right side, in a semi-circular legend around the lily, with the years of her birth and death in two lines below, “1224” and “1292”.
Back: </strongThe central motif on the back of the coin is a view of the monastery in Ószandec encircled in an engagement ring, with the legend “ÓSZANDEC” below, surrounded by the pattern of salt crystals. The circular legend at the top on the back shows the denomination “3000” FORINT, with the mint date “2024” on the left and the mint mark “BP.” on the right horizontally. The
legend “WIELICZKA” is integrated into the salt crystal below and at the bottom is the designer mark of E. Tamás Soltra, who focuses on the legend of the engagement ring as the central theme of the composition, creating a harmonious link to the front of the coin.

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