Catalog
Denier - Boleslaus II the Pious
| Issuer | Kingdom of Bohemia |
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| Year | 967-999 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Central design within a beaded circle featuring a stylized hand with extended fingers, likely representing a royal or ecclesiastical hand symbol, flanked by pellets on either side. A crude Latin legend runs around the outer field of the coin. The design is rendered in the rough, bold style typical of early Bohemian hammered coinage. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A cross pattée set within a beaded inner circle, with a trefoil or foliate ornament rising from the upper arm of the cross, and pellets placed in each quadrant formed by the arms of the cross. Small triangular or lozenge-shaped ornaments appear in the outer field between the beaded circle and the coin's edge, giving the reverse a decorative, quasi-heraldic appearance consistent with late 10th-century Bohemian denier coinage. |
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