Denier Bracteate - Leszek the White Kraków mint

Leszek the White's tenure over Kraków was interrupted twice — he was expelled by Mieszko III in 1198 and again faced challenges from rival Piast claimants throughout his rule — which makes attributing bracteates to specific phases of his reign nearly impossible. These coins were struck on foil-thin flans by a single-die process, the design punched through from one side, producing the characteristic mirror impression on the reverse. The Kop(-) reference signals this type remains uncatalogued in Kopicki's standard corpus, meaning most attributions rely on die comparisons across museum holdings rather than published typology.