Denier Bracteate - Boleslaus V the Chaste Kraków mint

Boleslaus V earned his epithet through a vow of celibacy made jointly with his wife Kinga of Hungary — a political and personal arrangement that left him without legitimate heirs and contributed to renewed fragmentation of Polish ducal territories after his death in 1279. His long reign over Kraków coincided with the devastating Mongol raids of 1241 and 1259, which disrupted mint activity across Silesia and Lesser Poland severely enough that dating individual bracteate issues within his reign remains largely speculative. Kop#171 sits in a sequence reconstructed primarily through hoard evidence rather than documentary record.