Denier - Coloman

Coloman — known in Hungarian as Könyves Kálmán, "the Book-lover" — was an unusually learned ruler for his age, reportedly so physically unimposing that he was initially destined for the church. He seized the throne in 1095 after deposing his uncle Géza I's line, and spent his reign consolidating the Hungarian kingdom's administrative and ecclesiastical structures. His monetary output reflects that consolidation: small, thin, and struck in quantity across a reign of over two decades.

Coloman is also notable for his 1096 edict formally forbidding witch trials — one of the earliest such prohibitions in medieval Europe — on the pragmatic grounds that witches do not exist.