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Denier - Ladislaus IV
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1272-1290 |
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| Value | Denier (Denár) (1) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse bears the royal name and title of King László (Ladislaus IV) arranged in four lines of Latin lettering across the field, reading MR EGIL ADIZ LAI, a retrograde or abbreviated rendering of the Hungarian royal title. The inscription is presented in a bold, roughly executed hammered style characteristic of late 13th-century Hungarian deniers. The flat, unadorned field surrounding the lettering shows the irregular flan typical of this issue. |
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| Obverse lettering | MR EGIL ADIZ LAI (Translation: King László) |
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Ladislaus IV — "the Cuman" — ruled under a regency until 1277, his minority defined by baronial faction fights and the looming presence of his mother's Cuman relatives, whom the Hungarian nobility viewed with deep suspicion. His personal rule was no more stable: he was excommunicated twice, held captive by his own magnates in 1277, and eventually murdered by Cuman followers in 1290. Coinage under his name spans nearly two decades of near-constant internal crisis.
The ÉH#296 attribution places this among the better-documented denier types of his reign, catalogued across the Huszár and Corpus references with reasonable consistency.