Catalog
Denier - Géza II
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1141-1162 |
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| Value | Denier (Denár) (1) |
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| Obverse description | Central plain cross with four pellets positioned close to the intersection, dividing the field into quadrants. Each quadrant is decorated with wedge-shaped and linear ornamental elements radiating outward from the cross. The overall design is geometric and non-figural, characteristic of the anonymous hammered deniers of the Árpád dynasty. The flan is irregular and the surfaces display the typical shallow relief of primitive Hungarian medieval coinage. No legend or inscription is present. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Géza II's reign coincided with sustained Byzantine pressure from Manuel I Komnenos, who invaded Hungary repeatedly and briefly occupied parts of the kingdom in the 1150s. Emergency and reduced-weight coinage was a documented consequence of these military demands on the royal treasury — the extreme lightness of this denier is not accidental.