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Denier - Béla I
| Issuer | Kingdom of Hungary |
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| Year | 1060-1063 |
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| Diameter | 16.00 mm |
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| Reverse description | Central cross with a small annulet at its centre, enclosed within a beaded inner circle flanked by wedge or lozenge-shaped ornamental elements in each quarter. The circumferential Latin legend +PANNONIA runs around the outer field. The coin exhibits the typical irregular flan and uneven strike associated with 11th-century Hungarian hammered deniers. |
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| Mintage | ND (1060-1063) - - ND (1060-1063) - +BEL.A REX - ND (1060-1063) - +BLADEX - ND (1060-1063) - +DANNONIA - ND (1060-1063) - +PAИИOИIA - ND (1060-1063) - obverse smaller pearlring, two dots between cross - |
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Béla I seized the Hungarian throne from his nephew Andrew I in 1060, and his coinage reflects the disruption — this denier belongs to a reign that lasted barely three years before Béla died in 1063, reportedly crushed when his wooden throne collapsed during a coup attempt by Andrew's son Salomon. Output was necessarily limited, and pieces that survived without heavy circulation damage are genuinely scarce relative to issues of longer-reigning Árpád monarchs.