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Obol - Andrew II

Issuer Hungary
Year 1205-1235
Type Standard circulation coin
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Edge Plain
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Mintage ND (1205-1235)
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Andrew II's reign was defined less by monetary policy than by relentless fiscal improvisation — he famously farmed out royal revenues, salt monopolies, and mint operations to Jewish and Muslim lessees, a practice that triggered the 1222 Golden Bull, Hungary's foundational constitutional document, which explicitly banned non-Christians from holding such offices. Whether this particular obol passed through hands affected by that prohibition is unanswerable, but the administrative chaos of his reign is precisely why minor silver of this period survives in such uneven quality and attribution.

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