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Denier - Stephen III
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1162-1172 |
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| Value | Denier (Denár) (1) |
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| Obverse description | Within a plain inner circle, a stylized H-shaped ornamental device with a small cross at its center, flanked by six small crosses and eight pellets distributed around the design. The motif is rendered in a primitive, abstracted style characteristic of 12th-century Hungarian hammered coinage. The field outside the inner circle is flat and unadorned. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Stephen III's reign was defined almost entirely by dynastic contest. His uncles Ladislaus II and Stephen IV, backed by Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos, repeatedly displaced him from the throne — Stephen III was deposed twice before finally holding power continuously from 1163. These deniers were struck across an interrupted reign, and attributing specific issues to precise sub-periods remains unresolved in the literature, which accounts for the broad date range across catalog references.
Manuel's intervention kept Byzantine influence over Hungarian succession an open question well into the 1160s.