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Parvus - Charles Robert
| Issuer | Kingdom of Hungary |
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| Year | 1308-1322 |
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| Reference(s) | ÉH#380, H#482, EK II#24/22, Anjou#1.37 |
| Obverse description | Central field bears a crowned shield displaying the Hungarian double cross (patriarchal cross) on a striped background, characteristic of the Árpád dynastic arms. The shield is surmounted by a royal crown. The overall design is rendered in the angular, Gothic style typical of early 14th-century Angevin hammered coinage. The device occupies the majority of the flan, which is irregular in shape as characteristic of the hammered parvus series. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Charles Robert of Anjou seized the Hungarian throne after a protracted succession war that lasted nearly a decade, his claim contested by Otto of Bavaria and Wenceslaus of Bohemia before papal backing finally consolidated his position in 1310. These small silver issues belong to the earliest phase of his monetary reorganization, before the florin-based reforms of the 1320s began transforming Hungary into one of Central Europe's dominant gold-producing powers. The parvus circulated at the lowest denomination of that transitional system.