Denier - Boleslaus I the Cruel

Boleslaus I came to power in 935 by ordering the assassination of his own brother, Wenceslaus — later canonized and enshrined in Bohemian national memory. The deniers struck under his reign are among the earliest native Bohemian coinage, issued as the duchy consolidated political authority and began asserting itself against the Ottonian empire to the west.

Cach 31 is a notoriously difficult attribution, with surviving specimens few enough that die linkage studies remain incomplete.