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Denier Bracteate - foreman Fryczk z Čakovic unknown mint
| Issuer | Duchy of Greater Poland |
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| Year | 1302-1303 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | As is characteristic of bracteate coinage, the reverse presents the incuse mirror image of the obverse design, showing the sunken impression of the central motif — a schematic head or face — transferred through the thin silver flan during the single-sided striking process. The surface is convex and largely featureless aside from the incuse relief. The irregular flan edge is visible around the circumference. |
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| Edge | Plain (irregular) |
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Fryczek z Čakovic appears in the documentary record as a magister monetae under Władysław I Łokietek during the fractious period when Greater Poland was contested between Piast claimants and Bohemian overlordship under Wenceslaus II. The mint location remains unidentified — possibly Poznań, possibly elsewhere — because the political instability of 1302–1303 made fixed production infrastructure difficult to maintain.
At 0.17 g, these bracteates were struck on foil-thin flans, and losses to tearing and fragmentation during circulation were substantial.