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Denier - Boleslaus I Cross, BOLI
| Issuer | Duchy of Silesia |
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| Year | 1185-1201 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Central voided cross with beaded outline, each arm filled with a row of beads extending toward the periphery. In each of the four voids between the arms of the cross appears a single Latin letter, together reading B-O-L-I (for Boleslaus), arranged clockwise or counterclockwise depending on variety. The overall design is rendered in the primitive Romanesque hammered style characteristic of late 12th-century Silesian bracteate-related coinage. The field is plain and the flan is irregular. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Two standing figures depicted face-to-face in a frontal heraldic arrangement, each rendered in a schematic Romanesque style typical of late 12th-century Central European bracteate coinage. Between them, the figures jointly hold an elongated staff or lance surmounted by a banner or pennant. The composition is symmetrically balanced, with the figures occupying the full height of the field. Details are worn but the characteristic bilateral symmetry of the design remains discernible. |
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