I also like the early Arpadian coins, Joe, but don't have a lot of them. The DVX MVONAS is particularly interesting. Here is a link to mine:
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-39742. This is my understanding of the strange
legend:
The
obverse legend is deciphered either as + DVX MVONAS (
per Huszár,
Frynas, Kovács and Gyöngyössy) or + DVX
MAGNVS (
per Réthy). The former interpretation deciphers all A/V letters consistently as inscribed (so that the fifth letter is a V and the eighth is an A) and assumes that the sixth letter is an O. The latter interpretation inverts the second and third A/V letters (so that the fifth letter is an A and the eighth is a V), and assumes that the sixth letter is a G. Tóth-Kiss and Kovács explain that
Magnus was the
Christian given name of Géza. According to
Adamovszky, the
standard legend reads MVONAS but there is a variety in which it reads
MAGNVS.
Stkp