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Denier - Stephen III
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1162-1172 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Within a beaded inner circle, a central cross flanked by the letters A and O in the field, surmounted by three omega-shaped (Ω) crescents arranged in a row with radiating lines, and a pellet at center. The design is characteristic of the primitive hammered style of medieval Hungarian deniers, with the symbolic motifs confined within the circular border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Stephen III came to power as a teenager amid dynastic civil war, his reign immediately contested by Byzantine-backed rivals — first his uncle Ladislaus II, then Stephen IV — who temporarily drove him from the throne in 1163. The Byzantines under Manuel I Komnenos were actively destabilizing the Hungarian succession throughout this decade, and the small fractional coinages of this period reflect a monarchy intermittently in crisis, minting opportunistically rather than systematically.
The H#132 attribution places this within a well-documented but sparsely represented type; surviving examples in collectible condition are scarce precisely because the political instability disrupted consistent production runs.