Gdańsk gained the right to mint coins under Casimir IV following the Thirteen Years' War, when the city — formerly under Teutonic Order control — was reintegrated into the Polish Crown by the Second Peace of Toruń in 1466. The bracteate form, already archaic by the mid-fifteenth century, persisted in Gdańsk and the surrounding region well after most European minting had abandoned single-sided uniface fabric for thicker, double-sided coinage.
The long date range assigned to this type reflects attribution difficulty rather than certainty — bracteates of this period rarely carry explicit dating, and assignment to Casimir IV's reign rests primarily on comparative die study and the Kopicki reference sequence.
Gdańsk gained the right to mint coins under Casimir IV following the Thirteen Years' War, when the city — formerly under Teutonic Order control — was reintegrated into the Polish Crown by the Second Peace of Toruń in 1466. The bracteate form, already archaic by the mid-fifteenth century, persisted in Gdańsk and the surrounding region well after most European minting had abandoned single-sided uniface fabric for thicker, double-sided coinage.
The long date range assigned to this type reflects attribution difficulty rather than certainty — bracteates of this period rarely carry explicit dating, and assignment to Casimir IV's reign rests primarily on comparative die study and the Kopicki reference sequence.