Denier Bracteate - Ottokar II medium

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.