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Denier - Charles Robert
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1330 |
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| Weight | 0.44 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts an angel kneeling to the right in a devotional posture, with wings visible above the figure and hands clasped in a gesture of prayer or supplication. A mintmark, rendered as the letter K, appears in the field to the left of the angel, indicating the Körmöcbánya (Kremnica) mint. The figure is executed in a simplified Gothic style consistent with Angevin Hungarian deniers of the early fourteenth century. The surrounding field is largely plain, with flan irregularities typical of hammered coinage. |
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Charles Robert of Anjou spent the first decade of his reign fighting to actually secure the Hungarian throne, which had been contested since 1301. By the time this issue was struck, he had consolidated power and relocated the royal seat to Visegrád, distancing the court from the fractious nobility of Esztergom and Buda. His coinage reforms of the 1320s and 1330s restructured the minting system around regional chambers, each supervised by a comes camerarum — a post he used deliberately to reward loyal barons rather than ecclesiastical interests.