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Denier - Charles Robert
| Issuer | Kingdom of Hungary |
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| Year | 1332 |
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| Value | 1 Denier (Denár) (1⁄96) |
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| Obverse description | Facing crowned bust of King Charles Robert (Károly Róbert) of the Angevin dynasty, depicted in regal attire with a stylized crown and broad shoulders, rendered in the characteristic flat relief of Hungarian hammered medieval coinage. The king's face is shown frontally with schematic facial features typical of early 14th-century Hungarian die-cutting. A partial Latin legend surrounds the bust reading REX · KAROLVS (King Károly), distributed across the upper and lateral fields of the irregular flan. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Charles Robert of Anjou spent the first decade of his Hungarian reign fighting to assert control over a nobility that had effectively parceled out the kingdom among themselves following the extinction of the Árpád dynasty in 1301. By the 1330s, with that consolidation finally secured, his administration undertook serious monetary reform — reducing the silver content of small deniers while increasing minting volume to fund an ambitious foreign policy that included military pressure on Serbia and commercial rivalry with Venice over Dalmatian trade routes.
The multiple catalog references reflect genuine scholarly disagreement over die classification within this type, with Engel's corpus and the Anjou series attributing subtly different emission sequences to the same general issue.