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Obol - Stephen V
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1270-1272 |
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| Value | Obol (Obulus) (1/2) |
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| Reverse description | Two confronting animals, rendered in a stylized and somewhat abstract hammered fashion, face one another across a central Hebrew letter positioned in the field between them. The creatures, likely lions or similar heraldic beasts, are depicted with elongated bodies curving inward toward the central device. A beaded inner border encircles the composition. The use of a Hebrew letter as a mint or moneyer mark is characteristic of certain Árpád-dynasty issues, reflecting the role of Jewish mint masters in medieval Hungary. |
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| Mintage | ND (1270-1272) |
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Stephen V's reign lasted just two years before his death in 1272 at age thirty-three, cutting short a rule that had already been defined by conflict — he had spent years fighting his own father, Béla IV, in a civil war that divided Hungary into two effectively separate courts. These obols were struck from a monetary system still recovering from the disruptions of that internal war, with royal minting authority only recently consolidated back under a single crown.