Denier Bracteate - abbot wąchocki Gerard Wąchock mint

Gerard was the second abbot of Wąchock, a Cistercian abbey founded in 1179 in the Świętokrzyskie region of Lesser Poland. Cistercian minting rights in medieval Poland were granted by ducal privilege, and Wąchock is among the very few Polish abbey mints whose output can be attributed to a specific named abbot with reasonable certainty. At 0.071g, these bracteates are extraordinarily thin — single-die struck on a flan of hammered silver sheet, a technique that makes clean survivors exceptionally difficult to find.