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Follis - Béla III
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1172-1196 |
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| Value | Follis |
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| Obverse lettering | REX BELA REX STS (Translation: King Béla King István) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Béla III's copper folles are among the most historically loaded coins of medieval Hungary. His reign coincided with a dramatic reorientation toward Byzantium — Béla had spent years at the Constantinople court as a designated imperial heir before dynastic politics returned him to Hungary — and the Byzantine administrative influence on his coinage is direct rather than coincidental. The follis denomination itself is a conscious borrowing from Byzantine monetary practice, unusual in a Latin Christian kingdom.
The ÉH#114 attribution places this among the better-documented types of the series, though die variation within Béla III's copper issues is considerable and not fully systematized.