Denier - Andrew II

Andrew II's reign was defined less by stable governance than by chronic fiscal desperation. His 1222 Golden Bull — Hungary's rough equivalent of Magna Carta — was in part extracted by a nobility furious at his habit of alienating royal lands and debasing the coinage to fund his disastrous Fifth Crusade campaign of 1217. The deniers of this period reflect that instability directly: multiple die varieties exist, and silver fineness dropped perceptibly across the reign as the treasury was repeatedly bled dry.