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Denier Bracteate - Leszek the White Kraków mint

Issuer Duchy of Kraków
Year 1202-1227
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Composition Silver
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Reverse description As a bracteate, the reverse presents the incuse mirror image of the obverse design, showing the domed central tower flanked by two smaller turrets and the arched gateway below, all rendered as a shallow negative impression in the thin silver flan. The surface displays the characteristic concavity and flan irregularities typical of hammered bracteate production. No legend or additional design elements are present on the reverse field.
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Leszek the White's tenure as Duke of Kraków was repeatedly interrupted — he was expelled twice, in 1210 and again in 1227, the second expulsion ending at the Congress of Gąsawa where he was assassinated. Bracteates of this period were struck on flans so thin that surviving examples with full, uncollapsed fabric are genuinely uncommon. The Kraków mint operated under conditions of chronic political fragmentation, with Piast dynastic rivalry meaning the issuing authority could change within a single minting season.

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