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Groschen - Charles Robert
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1330-1332 |
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| Value | 1 Groschen (Garas) (1⁄16) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Charles Robert of Anjou introduced the groschen to Hungary in deliberate imitation of the Florentine grosso and Bohemian Prague groschen, part of a broader monetary reform aimed at stabilizing Hungarian coinage after decades of debasement under the Árpád successors. The reform was inseparable from his reorganization of the royal mining revenues — particularly the silver mines of northern Hungary — which gave the crown direct control over bullion supply for the first time in a generation.
The narrow three-year window of issue reflects an experimental phase before Charles Robert's better-known florin coinage took precedence from 1325 onward as the prestige denomination.