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Denier - Géza II
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1141-1162 |
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| Weight | 0.29 g |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (1141-1162) - - ND (1141-1162) - larger crescents on obv. larger dots on rev. - |
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Géza II inherited the Hungarian throne at age eleven following a period of succession conflict that had destabilized the kingdom through the 1130s. His reign saw Hungary drawn into the broader struggle between the Byzantine Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary over Dalmatia and Bosnia, with Manuel I Komnenos launching multiple campaigns against him from 1150 onward. Coinage from this reign was produced under considerable administrative pressure.
The ÉH#60 classification places this squarely within the bracteate-influenced denier tradition that Hungarian mints were producing at extremely low weights through the mid-twelfth century — a deliberate policy of reducing silver content that accelerated under Géza's immediate predecessors.