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Denier Bracteate - Leszek the White Kraków mint
| Issuer | Duchy of Kraków |
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| Year | 1194-1227 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | As a bracteate, this coin was struck from a single die on a thin silver flan, producing a mirrored incuse impression on the reverse corresponding to the obverse design. The reverse therefore shows the same central figure in negative relief, surrounded by concentric circular border lines. The surface is plain with no additional design elements, inscriptions, or mint marks, consistent with standard Piast bracteate production of the late 12th to early 13th century. |
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| Mint | Kraków Mint |
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Leszek the White spent much of his reign fighting off rival Piast claimants and navigating the fractious politics of fragmented Poland — his hold on Kraków was interrupted twice by forced exile. Bracteates of this period were struck on flans so thin that die pressure alone could crack them, and the Kraków mint under Leszek produced some of the most delicate examples in the Piast sequence. The absence of a Kopicki reference number places this piece outside the catalogued mainstream, suggesting either an unpublished die pairing or a variety too scarce to have entered the standard corpus.