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Hungary. Kálmán/Coloman the Bookish (1095-1116). Huszár 40; Toth-Kiss 11.10 sigla c1.1/41; Unger 31; Réthy I 48; Frynas H.9.8 ; Lengyel 9/10; Adamovszky A56 ; Kovács pp. 174 ff
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Hungary. Kálmán/Coloman the Bookish (1095-1116)
AR denar (average: .45 g., 10.5-11 mm.), .37 g., 10.95 mm. max., 0°
Obv: + C–AL–M–N, Cross with pellets.
Rev: + LADLA–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 6/15, and was struck toward the middle of Coloman’s reign.
Huszár rarity 9, Toth-Kiss rarity 20, Unger rarity 40, 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.
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