Denier - Béla II

Béla II came to the throne partially blind — blinded as a child on the orders of King Stephen II, who feared dynastic rivals. His reign was shaped by the regency power of his wife, Helena of Raška, whose Serbian connections drew Hungary into closer Balkan entanglement. The coinage issued under his name reflects a period when the Hungarian monarchy was consolidating after years of brutal succession struggles among the Árpád dynasty.

The multiple catalog references — ÉH, CNH, CAC, and EK — point to ongoing scholarly disagreement over the precise classification of Árpád-era deniers, where die combinations and minor typological variants complicate attribution across different national traditions of Hungarian numismatics.