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Denier - Béla II
| Issuer | Kingdom of Hungary |
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| Year | 1131-1141 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (1131-1141) - - ND (1131-1141) - Bronze strike version - ND (1131-1141) - heavier 0.31 g version with rougher, bigger design - ND (1131-1141) - obv.: 3 central dots not in line, but circular - ND (1131-1141) - obv.: crescents between circles smaller, leaving large space between decoration and outer circle - |
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Béla II, known as "the Blind," came to power after his eyes were put out on the orders of King Coloman in 1112 — a mutilation carried out when Béla was a child, intended to remove him as a dynastic threat. That he survived to rule at all is remarkable. His reign was marked by a brutal consolidation at the Arad assembly of 1132, where dozens of nobles implicated in supporting a rival claimant were executed on the spot.
Hungarian deniers of this period are among the thinnest struck anywhere in medieval Europe, a product of deliberate weight reduction across successive reigns rather than debasement in the conventional sense.