Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Denier - Charles Robert
| Issuer | Hungary |
|---|---|
| Year | 1308-1310 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Hammered |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | A nimbed angel depicted kneeling and facing left, rendered in a flowing draped style with outstretched wings visible to the right. The angel raises a Latin cross in one hand, while a glory (halo) frames the head. The design is characteristic of the early Angevin devotional iconography introduced by Charles Robert of Hungary, executed in a crude but expressive hammered relief on an irregularly shaped flan. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Charles Robert of Anjou seized the Hungarian throne after a prolonged succession crisis that had fractured the kingdom since the death of Andrew III in 1301 — the last of the Árpád dynasty. His claim was contested by Wenceslaus of Bohemia and Otto of Bavaria in turn, and these earliest deniers were struck during the period when Charles was king in name but not yet fully in fact. Papal backing from Boniface VIII and then Clement V gave him canonical legitimacy before military and political consolidation gave him the rest.