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Denier - Solomon
| Issuer | Kingdom of Hungary |
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| Year | 1063-1074 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse lettering | +S ALOM ONIRE X (Translation: King Salamon) |
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| Reverse lettering | +PAИOИIA TERA (Translation: Hungarian land) |
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Solomon came to the Hungarian throne as a child king under complicated circumstances — his father Andrew I had actually crowned him co-ruler in 1057 specifically to sideline the claims of his brother Béla, a dynastic maneuver that triggered open civil war. Béla seized power in 1060, and Solomon only recovered the throne in 1063 with direct military backing from his brother-in-law, the German king Henry IV. His reign never fully stabilized; Béla's sons Géza and László continually contested his rule until forcing him from power in 1074.
The denier coinage of this reign is catalogued across multiple reference systems with slight numbering discrepancies, reflecting ongoing scholarly disagreement about die sequencing within the type.