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Denier - Andrew II
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1205-1235 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Two facing crowned royal busts arranged side by side upon an arc, separated by a stylized floral ornament (flower or rosette) in the center field. The busts are rendered in a primitive, high-relief hammered style characteristic of early 13th-century Hungarian coinage. The entire design is enclosed within a raised double-line inner circle, with a plain outer border. No legend is present. |
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| Reverse description | A horizontally striped pointed shield — emblematic of the Árpád dynastic arms — displayed prominently in the center of the field, flanked on either side by a stylized tree with spreading branches rendered in a schematic, high-relief hammered manner. A small globule or pellet appears at the base of the composition. The design is contained within a raised inner circle, with no legend. |
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Andrew II's reign was defined less by stable governance than by chronic financial crisis. To fund the Fifth Crusade — in which he personally participated in 1217 — and to satisfy the relentless demands of his barons, he systematically debased and reissued coinage at a pace that destabilized the Hungarian monetary system for decades. The deniers of his reign were struck in multiple emission cycles, each typically degraded from the last, making consistent die attribution genuinely difficult across the ÉH and H reference frameworks.
The Golden Bull of 1222, wrested from Andrew by the nobility, explicitly addressed coinage debasement as a grievance.