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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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| Currency | Denier (1138-1303) |
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| Obverse description | Single-sided bracteate struck in thin silver sheet, featuring a stylized standing figure, likely a princely or royal effigy, depicted frontally in a schematic Romanesque manner with outstretched arms and a large rounded head with facial features rendered in crude but expressive relief. The figure appears to hold an object, possibly a sceptre or sword, in the left field. The central device is enclosed within a dotted inner circle, surrounded by a partial legend in Latin characters arranged around the periphery against a plain field. |
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| Mintage | ND (1138-1202) |
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Mieszko III ruled Greater Poland across two periods of power, repeatedly expelled from his seat — once by his own subjects in 1177 — and eventually restored. His deniers and bracteates were struck at Gniezno and Kalisz during a reign defined less by stability than by dynastic struggle among the Piast princes following the fragmentation decreed by Bolesław III's 1138 testament. That fragmentation, which divided Poland among his sons, set off nearly two centuries of internal competition.
Kop#129 sits in a series where mint attribution between Gniezno and Kalisz remains contested among specialists, the thin fabric of bracteate flans offering few die-linkage anchors.