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Denier - Amadeus Aba
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1290-1310 |
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| Value | Denier (Denár) (1) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse bears the coat of arms of Palatine Amadeus Aba (Aba Amádé), displayed centrally within the field. The heraldic device is rendered in the simplified, bold style characteristic of late 13th- to early 14th-century Hungarian hammered coinage. A circular legend reads +mONETA . OMO, where OMO is an abbreviated form of OMODEI, the Latinised rendering of the name Amadeus. The legend is enclosed within a beaded border running along the coin's irregular periphery. |
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| Obverse lettering | +mONETA . OMO (Translation: Money of Omo (Omodei = Amadeus)) |
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Amadeus Aba was a powerful oligarch who effectively controlled a significant swathe of northern Hungary during the turbulent interregnum and early Angevin period — one of the so-called "little kings" who issued coinage in their own right while the central monarchy was too weak to stop them. This piece belongs to that narrow window when magnate families struck deniers that competed directly with royal issues in local circulation.
The Aba kindred's monetary authority collapsed as Charles Robert consolidated Angevin control over Hungary through the 1310s, systematically dismantling the oligarchic coinage prerogatives by force.