Leszek the White's tenure over Kraków was fractured — he was expelled twice, in 1202 and again briefly in 1210, by rival Piast claimants fighting over the senior principality. Bracteates of this mint and period are consequently difficult to assign with precision to any single phase of his rule, which is almost certainly why this type carries no Kopicki reference number.
At 0.11g, these are among the most fragile surviving Polish medieval coins. Struck on a single face from a thin silver wafer, they distort easily and surviving examples with full, uncracked flans are genuinely uncommon.
Leszek the White's tenure over Kraków was fractured — he was expelled twice, in 1202 and again briefly in 1210, by rival Piast claimants fighting over the senior principality. Bracteates of this mint and period are consequently difficult to assign with precision to any single phase of his rule, which is almost certainly why this type carries no Kopicki reference number.
At 0.11g, these are among the most fragile surviving Polish medieval coins. Struck on a single face from a thin silver wafer, they distort easily and surviving examples with full, uncracked flans are genuinely uncommon.