Iwo Odrowąż, Bishop of Kraków from 1218 to 1229, was among the most politically consequential ecclesiastical figures in early Piast Poland — a papal legate, a close associate of Prince Leszek the White, and the man credited with bringing the Dominican Order to Poland in 1222. The Kraków episcopal mint operated under rights that were hard-won and jealously guarded, and issues from Odrowąż's tenure represent some of the earliest surviving evidence of independent episcopal monetary authority in the region.
Kop. 234 is a scarce type. Examples surface almost exclusively from hoards rather than single finds.
Iwo Odrowąż, Bishop of Kraków from 1218 to 1229, was among the most politically consequential ecclesiastical figures in early Piast Poland — a papal legate, a close associate of Prince Leszek the White, and the man credited with bringing the Dominican Order to Poland in 1222. The Kraków episcopal mint operated under rights that were hard-won and jealously guarded, and issues from Odrowąż's tenure represent some of the earliest surviving evidence of independent episcopal monetary authority in the region.
Kop. 234 is a scarce type. Examples surface almost exclusively from hoards rather than single finds.