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.
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.