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Denier - Boleslaus III Wrymouth Kraków mint
| Issuer | Kingdom of Poland |
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| Year | 1107-1138 |
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| Value | 1 Denier |
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| Obverse description | A crowned, frontal standing figure of the prince rendered in a crude Romanesque style, identifiable as Boleslaus III Wrymouth. The figure is depicted wearing a conical crown adorned with pellets and is dressed in a long robe decorated with beaded ornamentation. In his right hand he holds a sword or sceptre, while his left hand extends outward. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded border, the flan showing the characteristic irregular edge of a hand-struck hammered coin. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Boleslaus III spent much of his reign in near-continuous warfare — against the Holy Roman Empire, Pomerania, and his own half-brother Zbigniew, whom he had blinded and expelled in 1112. The Kraków mint operated through all of it, producing bracteate-style deniers of notably low silver content by this period, a reflection of general Central European monetary debasement rather than any specific Polish policy.
Kop#44 is among the thinner and more fragile of the Polish early medieval series. Flan cracks are endemic to the type.