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Denier Bracteate - Ottokar II medium
| Issuer | Margraviate of Moravia |
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| Year | 1270-1278 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | As a bracteate, the reverse presents the incuse mirror image of the obverse design, with the eagle motif appearing in negative relief. The surface is unworked and slightly concave, typical of the bracteate technique in which a single die strikes through the thin silver flan. The reverse shows no additional design elements, legends, or mint marks. |
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| Mintage | ND (1270-1278) |
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Ottokar II ruled Bohemia and Moravia at the height of Přemyslid power, controlling territory stretching from the Adriatic to the Baltic by the early 1270s. His death at the Battle of Marchfeld in 1278 — defeated by Rudolf of Habsburg in what effectively ended Přemyslid dominance over Central Europe — gives this issue a hard terminal date that aligns precisely with political collapse.
Bracteate production in Moravia under Ottokar relied on thin, single-sided flans struck with considerable force, making clean survivors genuinely scarce. Cach 979 sits within a closely related sequence of types from this reign, distinguished by flan size from the lighter and heavier denominations in the same series.