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Denier - Andrew II
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1205-1235 |
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| Value | Denier (Denár) (1) |
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| Obverse description | Frontal bust of King Andrew II, crowned with a beaded crown, depicted in a stylized Romanesque manner. The king holds a sword upright in his right hand and a patriarchal cross-tipped orb in his left hand. The effigy is shown in high relief within a plain inner circle, with the flat field bearing no legend. Facial features are rendered schematically with large eyes and a symmetrical composition characteristic of early 13th-century Hungarian coinage. |
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| Mintage | ND (1205-1235) |
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Andrew II's reign was defined less by monetary policy than by the 1222 Golden Bull — Hungary's equivalent of Magna Carta, wrested from him by disgruntled nobles after years of catastrophic land giveaways he called the "new institutions." The chronic fiscal strain of his disastrous Fifth Crusade (1217–1218), which accomplished essentially nothing, left the royal treasury depleted and the coinage correspondingly thin and broadly distributed across a long striking window.
Multiple reference systems catalog this type, reflecting genuine scholarly disagreement about die groupings within the 1205–1235 span.