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Denier Bracteate - Ottokar II medium
| Issuer | Kingdom of Bohemia |
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| Year | 1260-1278 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Uniface bracteate struck on a thin silver flan with an irregular rounded rim. Within a raised circular border, a crowned Bohemian lion passant is depicted in relief facing left, its body covered with a granulated pellet pattern representing fur. The lion's tail curls upward and the crown above its head is rendered with a simple trefoil finial. The design is executed in the characteristic shallow relief of mid-thirteenth-century Bohemian bracteate coinage, with no legend or inscription in the field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ottokar II ruled Bohemia at the peak of its medieval territorial expansion, controlling at various points Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola — a domain stretching from the Sudeten mountains to the Adriatic. His reign ended at the Battle of Marchfeld in 1278, where he was killed fighting Rudolf of Habsburg, an outcome that would define Central European dynastic politics for the next two centuries. Bracteates of this period were produced in multiple die varieties, and Cach 828 places this piece within the documented middle-weight classification of his issues, distinguishing it from the lighter and heavier bracteates struck concurrently from the same Bohemian mints.