Denier - Boleslaus II the Pious

Boleslaus II consolidated Bohemian ecclesiastical independence in 973 when he secured the establishment of the Prague bishopric under Bishop Dietmar, reducing the kingdom's religious subordination to the Regensburg diocese. The coinage of his reign reflects this political maturation — deniers of this period represent the earliest systematically organized Bohemian silver issues, struck as the Přemyslid dynasty worked to align itself with the monetary conventions of the Ottonian empire to the west.

Šmerda#50 is among the better-documented types of the reign, though attributing individual specimens remains complicated by die inconsistencies across the roughly three-decade production span.