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Denier Bracteate - abbot wąchocki Gerard Wąchock mint
| Issuer | Wąchock Abbey |
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| Year | 1219-1234 |
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| Reference(s) | Kop#236 |
| Obverse description | Bracteate struck in thin silver sheet presenting a highly stylized frontal face or mask design within a beaded inner circle, itself enclosed within a plain outer rim. The central motif depicts a schematic human visage with broad, arc-shaped eyebrows rendered as raised curved ridges, flanked on each side by two globules representing eyes or decorative pellets. Below the facial feature, a prominent vertical element composed of three parallel strokes descends toward the lower field, suggestive of a stylized beard or architectural feature. The overall design is deeply struck in the primitive Romanesque idiom characteristic of Polish ecclesiastical bracteates of the early thirteenth century, with the relief appearing in mirror image on the reverse as is typical of the bracteate technique. |
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| Reverse description | As a bracteate, the reverse presents the incuse mirror image of the obverse design, showing the same stylized frontal mask with flanking globules and vertical triple-stroke element in negative relief. The thin hammered silver flan bears the characteristic irregular outline of bracteate coinage, with the surface exhibiting natural die stress marks and slight cracking at the edges consistent with the hammering technique. No independent design, legend, or inscription appears on the reverse, as the entire decorative program is concentrated on the obverse die. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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