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Denier Bracteate - Ottokar II
| Issuer | Margraviate of Moravia |
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| Year | 1253-1270 |
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| Value | 1 Denier |
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| Obverse description | Uniface bracteate struck in thin silver. The central device depicts a double-headed eagle displayed, the two heads facing outward to left and right respectively, joined at a central body rendered with stylized feathering. Beneath each head crouches a small human figure, shown frontally with schematic facial features, grasping the eagle's talons or legs. The composition is bold and symmetrical, executed in the robust Romanesque heraldic style characteristic of Moravian bracteates of the mid-thirteenth century. The coin exhibits a plain raised rim with vestigial beaded border interrupted by several irregular splits at the edge. |
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| Reverse description | Uniface bracteate; the reverse is blank and exhibits the incuse mirror impression of the obverse design as an unavoidable consequence of the single-die hammering technique used in bracteate production. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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