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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 3944850, member: 98035&quot;]Welcome!</p><p><br /></p><p>You have not a Byzantine coin, but a Hungarian one. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces33692.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces33692.html" rel="nofollow">https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces33692.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Your coin has most of Mary&#039;s head and SANCTA of SANCTA MARIA</p><p><br /></p><p>Bela III was sent to live in Constantinople in his youth and was at one point poised to inherit the throne there, but he was bumped out of the line of succession when Manuel I had a son. Bela was recalled to Hungary when his brother king Stephen III died, and he briefly tried to introduce Byzantine-style copper scyphate coins, which were rejected by the people who were accustomed to tiny silver coins rather than large copper ones. These &quot;rezpenz&quot; are common, rarely found circulated, but often found damaged as people sometimes tried to hammer them flat.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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