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Denier Bracteate - Ladislaus I the Short Sandomierz mint

Issuer Kingdom of Poland
Year 1306-1320
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Value 1 Denier
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Obverse description A Piast eagle displayed in profile to the left, rendered in bold low relief characteristic of the bracteate technique, occupying the central field within a raised inner border. The bird's wings are spread and rendered with incised feather detailing, the talons visible below. The design is executed in the schematic yet vigorous style typical of early 14th-century Polish bracteate coinage, with no legend or inscription present. The thin, uniface fabric produces a corresponding incuse impression on the reverse.
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Reverse description As a uniface bracteate, the reverse presents the incuse mirror image of the obverse design, showing the eagle motif sunk into the fabric of the thin silver flan. The surface is plain and unmarked apart from the negative relief of the obverse design, with no additional ornament, legend, or border element. The characteristic concave curvature of the bracteate flan is evident across the reverse field.
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Ladislaus I reunified a fragmented Polish duchy after nearly a century of Piast partition, and his coins reflect the monetary disorder of that reunification. The Sandomierz mint operated under shifting political control during these years — the city had passed through the hands of rival Piast princes before Ladislaus consolidated Lesser Poland. Bracteates of this type were struck on blanks so thin that many surviving examples are creased or split, not from circulation wear but from the striking process itself.

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