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Denier Bracteate - Mieszko III the Old Gniezno or Kalisz mint
| Issuer | Greater Poland, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1138-1202 |
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| Value | 1 Denier |
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| Obverse description | Single-sided bracteate depicting a frontal standing figure, identified as Mieszko III the Old, shown in a stylized Romanesque manner with a diademed or crowned head facing forward. The figure is rendered in high relief against a flat field, with the body shown in simplified hieratic form, arms positioned at the sides or slightly extended. Surrounding the central effigy are crude pseudo-epigraphic or partially legible letter-like symbols arranged in a circular pattern around the rim. The coin's edge is irregular and slightly lobate, characteristic of thin hammered bracteate coinage of twelfth-century Greater Poland. The overall execution reflects the provincial die-cutting style of the Gniezno or Kalisz mint workshops. |
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| Mint | Gniezno or Kalisz mint |
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Mieszko III ruled—and was repeatedly expelled from—his duchy across a reign fragmented by baronial opposition and conflict with his own sons. The denier bracteates issued under his authority belong to a period when Piast coinage was transitioning away from the bilateral deniers of earlier decades toward the thin single-sided fabric that dominated Polish minting through the twelfth century. Gniezno and Kalisz functioned as the principal centers of Greater Poland's administrative and ecclesiastical life, and both operated mints intermittently depending on where Mieszko held effective control.
Kopicki 105 is among the thinner-documented bracteate attributions in the series — the mint assignment remains debated.