Denier - Stephen V

Stephen V ruled for just two years before dying at age 33, likely of illness contracted while fleeing Cumان allies-turned-enemies in the marshes near the Danube. His reign was consumed by the aftermath of the Mongol invasions and a bitter civil war fought against his own father, Béla IV, that had split the kingdom's administration into two effectively rival courts for nearly a decade before his accession.

The extreme lightness of this issue reflects the prolonged debasement of Hungarian silver coinage across the mid-thirteenth century — a fiscal consequence of rebuilding fortifications after 1241.