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Denier - Stephen V
| Issuer | Kingdom of Hungary |
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| Year | 1270-1272 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Central field divided horizontally by a beaded line, with the royal name and title inscribed in two registers: the upper register bearing 'S·TEPh·AN' and the lower register 'RE·X', all enclosed within a beaded inner circle and an outer legend border. The lettering is rendered in a characteristic medieval Hungarian Gothic style typical of mid-13th-century hammered coinage. The overall composition is symmetrical, with the inscription dominating the field in bold, slightly irregular letterforms reflecting hand-struck production. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Stephen V ruled for just two years before dying at age twenty-eight, his reign bookended by conflict with his own father, Béla IV, whose western-leaning policies Stephen had openly opposed from his stronghold in Transylvania. The civil war between them in 1264–1265 effectively split Hungary into two competing monetary zones, each issuing coinage independently — making attribution of deniers from this transitional period genuinely complicated.
The short reign and disrupted mint output keep surviving examples scarcer than the catalog references alone suggest.