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Denier - Andrew II
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1205-1235 |
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| Weight | 0.48 g |
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| Reverse description | Three stylized pillars rise from a common arc or baseline, arranged symmetrically across the field. The central pillar is taller and surmounted by a circle, while the two flanking pillars are each adorned with a small dot enclosed within an inner circle at their tops. The composition is a common architectural or heraldic device found on Árpád-period Hungarian coinage, rendered in the simplified, bold manner typical of hammered medieval deniers. |
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| Mintage | ND (1205-1235) - - ND (1205-1235) - bronze strike - |
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Andrew II's reign was defined less by monetary policy than by the catastrophic land grants of his so-called "new institutions" — he alienated royal estates so aggressively to his nobles that by 1222 the barons forced the Golden Bull upon him, Hungary's rough equivalent of Magna Carta. The crown's fiscal base never fully recovered, and the thin, bracteate-influenced fabric of these small deniers reflects a treasury operating well below the capacity of his predecessors.
Andrew also led the disastrous Fifth Crusade's Hungarian contingent in 1217, returning early and deeply indebted to the Teutonic Knights.