Hungary. Kálmán/Coloman the Bookish (1095-1116). Huszár 34; Toth-Kiss 11.5 sigla c1.6/54; Unger 30; Réthy I 42; Frynas H.9.7; Lengyel 9/4; Adamovszky A49; Kovács pp. 169 ff

Hungary. Kálmán/Coloman the Bookish (1095-1116)

AR denar (average .41 g., 10-11 mm.), . 39g., 10.55 mm. max.

Obv: + CAL–MAN, Three crosses with balls.

Rev: LADLAV RE (decaying legend), cross with wedges.

Struck in Esztergom. Struck ca. 1105-1116 (per Gyöngyössy, whose dating has not been accepted by later catalogers and appears to be speculative). Hóman hypothesized that the chronology of Coloman’s coinage can be determined via the progressively diminishing average weights of the emissions. By this hypothesis, this emission is ranked 11/15, and was struck at the end of Coloman’s reign.

Huszár rarity 10, Toth-Kiss rarity 20, Unger rarity 60 DM, Frynas rarity N.

Ladislaus/László I (1077-1095) was canonized in 1192. His name typically appeared, albeit in an increasingly decaying form, on the reverse of 12th century emissions such as this.