1373-1382 AD., Hungary, Lajos I, Denar, Huszar 547.

Hungary, Angevin Dynasty (1307-1387), Louis I of Hungary (Lajos I, 1342-1382), struck 1373-1382 AD.,
Denar (13-14 mm / 0,57 g), silver, axes about medal alignment ↑↑ (ca. 330°),
Obv.: + mOnЄTA LODOVICI , saracen's head facing left.
Rev.: + RЄGIS hVnGARIЄ , Patriarchal cross with random pellets.
Éh 432 ; CNH 89A ; Huszar 547 .

Louis the Great (5 March 1326, Visegrád – 10 September 1382, Nagyszombat/Trnava) was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1342 and King of Poland from 1370 until his death.
Louis was the head of the senior branch of the Angevin dynasty. He was one of the most active and accomplished monarchs of the Late Middle Ages, extending territorial control to the Adriatic and securing Dalmatia, with part of Bosnia, within the Holy Crown of Hungary. The rulers of Serbia, Wallachia, Moldavia, and Bulgaria became his vassals.
He spent much of his reign in wars with the Republic of Venice. He was in competition for the throne of Naples, with huge military success and the latter with little lasting political results. Louis is the first European monarch who came into collision with the Ottoman Turks. During his reign Hungary reached the peak of its political influence.

The Saracen's head is a pun on the surname of Jacobus Saracenus (Szerechen, in Hun.) and his brother, Johannes, courtiers of Italian descent who were ennobled by Louis. The image of a Saracen's head appeared on their coat of arms. Jacobus became the kammergraf at the Pécs mint in 1352, and the Comes Camerarum Regalium in 1369. He died in the early 1370s, at which time Johannes succeeded him as kammergraf.