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 his peak — earning him the epithet "King of Gold and Iron." These thin, single-sided bracteates were struck during the period of his greatest ambitions, ending abruptly with his defeat and death at the Battle on the Marchfeld in 1278, where Rudolf of Habsburg's forces killed him and dismantled Bohemian dominance in central Europe. Cach 811 sits within a typological sequence that helps reconstruct the otherwise poorly documented Bohemian minting chronology of his reign.