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Denier - Stephen III
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1162-1172 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | A horizontal pearl line divides the field; above, a central cross flanked on each side by a line terminating in a dot at the bottom and a crescent at the top, with short diagonal lines extending further outward toward the edge. Below the dividing line, a central dot is flanked by short lines each bearing a dot below and a wedge above, with small crosses at the periphery. The overall design is geometric and abstract, characteristic of 12th-century Hungarian hammered coinage. |
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| Mintage | ND - rev.: cross made of wedges and dots - ND (1162-1172) - - ND (1162-1172) - bronze strike - |
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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 Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos, who repeatedly installed Stephen's uncles — Ladislaus II and then Stephen IV — as puppet kings in his stead. The denier series issued under Stephen III therefore spans a reign that was interrupted and contested, and attributing specific types to precise sub-periods within 1162–1172 remains an unresolved problem in Hungarian medieval numismatics.
At 0.25 g, these pieces were struck on the thinnest end of contemporary Hungarian silver coinage.