Denier - Géza II

Géza II's reign saw Hungary drawn into the wider dynastic struggles of the mid-twelfth century, with Byzantine pressure under Manuel I Komnenos a persistent threat along the southeastern frontier. The kingdom's silver coinage of this period reflects the broader debasement trend accelerating across Central European mints — these small deniers were struck from increasingly impure silver as military expenditure mounted. Géza also granted extensive privileges to Flemish and Walloon settlers during this period, a colonization effort that reshaped parts of Transylvania and required consistent, functioning coinage to sustain.