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Denier - Andrew II
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1205-1235 |
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| Reference(s) | ÉH#169, H#238, EK I#17/34, CAC III#21.32.1.1 |
| Obverse description | Facing bust of a crowned figure rendered in archaic Romanesque style, depicted frontally beneath a double arch, holding a lily sceptre in each raised hand. Two towers flank the figure in the upper field. The composition is enclosed within a double beaded circle forming the border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Andrew II's reign was defined less by monetary policy than by the catastrophic generosity of his land grants — the so-called "new institutions" that alienated royal estates on a scale that crippled the treasury and ultimately forced the Golden Bull of 1222, Hungary's answer to Magna Carta. Coinage from this period reflects that fiscal erosion: silver content in Árpád-era deniers declined perceptibly across his thirty-year reign as the crown struggled to maintain even basic minting standards.
Andrew also led the ill-fated Fifth Crusade, departing in 1217 and returning within a year having accomplished nothing of consequence — but the campaign drained resources that never returned to the mint.