Catalog
Denier - Géza II
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1141-1162 |
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| Diameter | 12.80 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central design featuring a small raised cross within a beaded inner circle, with four pellets placed in the angles of the cross. Two crescent-like forms flank the central motif, their tips extended by short lines, framing the composition symmetrically. The entire design is enclosed within a plain raised rim. No legend or inscription appears in the field. The style is typical of early Hungarian hammered coinage, with bold geometric elements and irregular flan shape. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Géza II ruled during one of medieval Hungary's most turbulent periods of external interference, fighting off repeated attempts by Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos to install rival claimants — including Géza's own brothers Boris and later Ladislaus — on the Árpád throne. The denier series of his reign is catalogued across multiple die combinations in the Corpus Nummorum Hungariae, and individual specimens can often be assigned to earlier or later phases of the reign based on die linkage studies.