Tiny Hungarian silver coin

[Pellinore]

Here's a little beauty - and I wonder what it says. I can't read the lettering, the seller read the obverse for me. What are these three staffs, and what is up, what is down?

Hungary, Coloman (1095-1116). Denar. Obv: +CAL MAN. Three parallel long crosses with orbs in the middle and the bottom of the their stems. Rev: Cross within circle; pseudo legend around. 10.5 mm, 0.41 gr.

-- Paul

[Manzikert]

Believe it or not it 'reads' CALMAN REX starting with the cross at the top on the obverse, and the same on the reverse starting at 9 o'clock, with the initial 'CA' ligated.

I think the things are on the reverse are three cross-topped sceptres if you turn the reverse 180 degrees.

These would normally be outside my collecting fields, but I saw one and just had to have it. Perhaps I should admit to 'denar-itis' (I now have accumulated 35 of them). They are tiny things and I find it difficult to imagine how they were actually used: they must have had tightly sewn purses!

Alan

[JMP]

Numista says:

Obverse
Three paralell long crosses with orbs in the middle and the bottom of the their stems

Lettering: +CAL MAN

Translation: Kálmán

Reverse
Isosceles cross within inner line circle, wedges in between.
Letter S reverse

Lettering: LADISLAVSE

Translation: King László

[JMP]

Meanwhile I have seen several of those Coloman Denars and one thing is everywhere the same: the die cutter makes a complete mess out of the legend. Totally illiterate!

On your coin, I think, LADISLAVSE has become: LA??AVSE if you accept to take the two rings for an "S".

[Manzikert]

Yes, your LADISLAVS definitely makes better sense than my KALMAN! I should have looked at Huszar before posting.

Alan

[Pellinore]

Thank you both very much. Here's the revised photograph, and Huszár 34, the reference.
In fact I rather like the lettering, especially the name CALMAN with their pyramid-like letters. On a coin so tiny!

-- Paul