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Denier - Emeric
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1196-1204 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | The royal name HENRICVS (the Latin form of Imre/Emeric) is rendered in three horizontal lines across the field in bold, deeply struck Gothic characters: HE at top, NRIC in the centre, and VS at the bottom. A small six-pointed star appears to the left of the uppermost line, and a pellet is visible to the right of the lowermost line. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded border. The lettering style is characteristic of Hungarian hammered deniers of the late Árpád period. |
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| Obverse lettering | HE NRIC VS (Translation: Imre) |
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Emeric (Imre) ruled during one of the most fractious successions in Árpád dynasty history, his reign defined almost immediately by armed conflict with his brother Andrew, who mounted repeated challenges to the throne. That chronic instability — including periods where Andrew controlled substantial territory as a quasi-independent duke — almost certainly disrupted mint output, which may explain the relative scarcity of cleanly attributed pieces from this reign.
The ÉH#126 attribution places this firmly within the thin documentary record of Hungarian royal coinage before the monetary reforms of the thirteenth century.