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Denier - Géza II
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1141-1162 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Plain cross at center, with four pellets placed in the angles of the cross and four inward-facing crescents arranged within an inner beaded or raised circle; the design is characteristically abstract and geometric, consistent with the anonymous coinage style of the Árpád dynasty. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Géza II's reign saw Hungary drawn into the wider dynastic struggles of the mid-twelfth century, with Byzantine pressure under Manuel I Komnenos a persistent threat along the southeastern frontier. The kingdom's silver coinage of this period reflects the broader debasement trend accelerating across Central European mints — these small deniers were struck from increasingly impure silver as military expenditure mounted. Géza also granted extensive privileges to Flemish and Walloon settlers during this period, a colonization effort that reshaped parts of Transylvania and required consistent, functioning coinage to sustain.