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Denier - Béla as Crown Prince
| Issuer | Kingdom of Hungary |
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| Year | 1048-1060 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field features a long cross with a smaller cross at its apex, flanked by wedge-shaped ornaments in each quarter, all enclosed within a beaded inner circle. The circular Latin legend +BELA DVX runs between the inner beaded circle and the outer beaded border, identifying the issuer as Béla, Duke (Crown Prince). The overall design is characteristic of early Hungarian hammered coinage, rendered in a bold, somewhat irregular style typical of eleventh-century Central European minting. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a highly stylized foliate or tree-like motif at the center, enclosed within a beaded inner circle, with additional ornamental elements radiating outward — a design interpreted in Hungarian numismatic literature as a schematic representation of a plant or abstract interlace. The circular Latin legend +PANNONIA runs between the inner beaded circle and the outer beaded border, referencing the historical Roman province of Pannonia, used here as a geographical designation for Hungary. The hammered fabric is irregular in outline, consistent with hand-struck coinage of the mid-eleventh century. |
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| Mintage | ND (1048-1060) - - ND (1048-1060) - +BEA DVX - ND (1048-1060) - +BELA DVX retrograde lettering, rev.: +PANONI (EK#5/1B) - ND (1048-1060) - +DANNDIA - ND (1048-1060) - +DANNONA - ND (1048-1060) - +DANNONIA - ND (1048-1060) - +DNNONIA - ND (1048-1060) - +IANNNIA - ND (1048-1060) - +PANNONIA reverse N - ND (1048-1060) - +PANNONIA reverse P - ND (1048-1060) - +PANONEIA - ND (1048-1060) - +PANONIA - ND (1048-1060) - obverse without wedges - ND (1048-1060) - rev.: +STESZ TVTIE retrograde lettering - |
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