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Denier - Andrew II
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1205-1235 |
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| Reference(s) | ÉH#162, H#269, EK I#17/80, CAC III#21.84 |
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| Reverse description | Two addorsed lions passant or rampant, depicted in a highly stylised and primitive relief, facing outward and looking backwards over their shoulders in the heraldic tradition. A small six-pointed star occupies the central field between the two beasts. The design fills the flan within a plain border circle, and is rendered in the crude, flat hammered style typical of the Árpád-dynasty coinage of the early 13th century. No legend is present. |
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| Mintage | ND (1205-1235) |
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Andrew II's reign was defined less by sound monetary policy than by the catastrophic land grants of his so-called "new institutions" — a program of alienating royal estates to favorites on a scale that permanently weakened the Hungarian crown's revenue base. The deniers issued under his authority reflect this fiscal erosion: successive debasements reduced silver content across the reign, and the coinage grew progressively thinner and lighter as the treasury strained to meet crusading expenses, including his ultimately fruitless 1217 participation in the Fifth Crusade.
The 1222 Golden Bull, Hungary's answer to Magna Carta, was partly a baronial response to exactly this kind of monetary and administrative mismanagement.