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Denier - Andrew II

Issuer Hungary
Year 1205-1235
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Value Denier (Denár) (1)
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Obverse description Decorative arc embellished with hoops enclosing a central cross, flanked on each side by a tower; a crowned royal effigy facing forward occupies the center of the design, rendered in the flat, stylized manner characteristic of medieval Hungarian hammered coinage.
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Edge Plain
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Andrew II's reign was defined less by monetary policy than by the 1222 Golden Bull — Hungary's foundational constitutional document, extracted from Andrew by barons who had grown furious at his habit of alienating royal lands and revenues to favorites. The chronic fiscal pressure this created likely drove debasement across his silver issues, and the denier series shows measurable variation in fineness across the reign's three decades.

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