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Denier Bracteate - Ottokar II large
| Issuer | Kingdom of Bohemia |
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| Year | 1253-1278 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (1253-1278) |
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Ottokar II ruled Bohemia at the peak of Přemyslid power, controlling territory stretching from Silesia to the Adriatic at various points — earning him the epithet "King of Gold and Iron." These bracteates were struck during a period when Bohemia's silver mines, particularly those opening around Jihlava in the 1250s, were flooding the regional economy with new metal. The Jihlava finds preceded the even larger Kutná Hora deposits and gave Ottokar the fiscal muscle to finance nearly continuous military campaigns.
Fiala's classification of this type under XXVII/7 places it among the larger-module issues, distinguished from the smaller deniers of the same reign by fabric thickness tolerances specific to Bohemian bracteate production.