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Denier - Béla IV
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1235-1270 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | A six-pointed Star of David (hexagram) occupies the central field, rendered in bold relief characteristic of medieval Hungarian hammered coinage. The legend BELIE EPS runs around the periphery in crude Latin letters without an inner circle border. The lettering is irregularly spaced and partially degraded, typical of the low-denomination bracteate-influenced denars of the Árpád period. No inner circle is present, and the fields are flat and unadorned. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Béla IV's reign was defined almost entirely by the Mongol invasion of 1241–42, which annihilated roughly half of Hungary's population and forced the king to flee to the Adriatic coast. The reconstruction effort that followed was enormous — Béla essentially rebuilt the kingdom from the ground up, fortifying towns and repopulating devastated regions. Coinage from this period reflects the administrative strain; these small deniers circulated in a economy that had been catastrophically disrupted and was only slowly reconstituting itself.
The multiple catalog references suggest this type has attracted sustained scholarly attention, with ÉH and Huszár attributions occasionally diverging on die groupings.