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Denier - Charles Robert
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1308-1322 |
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| Value | 1 Denier (Denár) (1⁄96) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A centrally placed stylized tree or flowering plant, rendered with upswept branches, flanked symmetrically by two swans facing inward toward the central motif, all within a beaded inner circle. The swans are depicted in profile with naturalistic detail of wings and neck, representing heraldic charges associated with the Angevin dynasty. The field is plain, and the overall composition is characteristic of the bold, emblematic reverse designs used on Hungarian medieval deniers of the Anjou period. |
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Charles Robert of Anjou spent years consolidating control over Hungary before his third and final coronation in 1310 — the first two were disputed on procedural grounds, including the absence of the Holy Crown of Saint Stephen. These deniers were struck during a reign defined by factional warfare against oligarchic magnates who had effectively partitioned the kingdom. The coinage reform he eventually enacted in the 1320s, drawing on Neapolitan Angevin monetary practice, rendered earlier issues like this one obsolete relatively quickly.