Denier Bracteate - Ottokar II medium

Ottokar II ruled Bohemia at the height of its medieval power, controlling territory stretching from Silesia to the Adriatic at various points — earning him the epithet "King of Iron and Gold." These bracteates were struck during the period of his most aggressive territorial expansion and his increasingly tense relationship with the newly elected Rudolf of Habsburg, whose 1273 election Ottokar refused to recognize. That confrontation ended at the Battle of Marchfeld in 1278, where Ottokar was killed, making this issue's closing date a hard historical boundary.