Denier - Géza II

Géza II's reign coincided with Hungary's deep entanglement in the dynastic struggles of the Rus' principalities — he intervened militarily multiple times in support of rival Kievan claimants, campaigns that drained treasury resources and almost certainly kept coin production lean. At 0.19 g, these deniers represent a degraded silver standard already well below the coinage of Stephen I's era, a decline that tracked closely with the fiscal pressures of continuous campaigning on Hungary's eastern frontier.