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Denier - Stephen III
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1162-1172 |
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| Weight | 0.32 g |
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| Obverse description | Central cross with two short vertical lines terminating in a dot on each lateral arm. Two small crosses flank the central motif to the left and right. Six outward-facing crescents are arranged around the central cross, with the crescents at the top and bottom each accompanied by three pellets. The design is executed in the simple, schematic style characteristic of medieval Hungarian hammered coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Stephen III came to power as a teenager in 1162 and spent much of his reign fighting off rival claimants backed by the Byzantine emperor Manuel I Comnenus, who repeatedly installed Stephen's uncles — Ladislaus II and then Stephen IV — on the Hungarian throne in quick succession. The political instability meant the kingdom cycled through multiple rulers within a single year, making attribution of deniers to specific reigns genuinely difficult and a point of ongoing scholarly dispute.
The Huszár 174 attribution carries some uncertainty precisely because of this dynastic chaos of the early 1160s.