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Denier Bracteate - Ottokar II small
| Issuer | Unified Moravia and Margraviate |
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| Year | 1253-1270 |
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| Currency | Margraviate Bracteates (1253-1300) |
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| Obverse description | Single-sided bracteate struck in thin silver, depicting two confronted crowned heads facing one another in profile, separated by a central vertical column or scepter terminating in a stylized foliate finial at the top. Each crowned bust is rendered in a simplified, stylized manner characteristic of Moravian bracteate coinage of the mid-thirteenth century, with beaded ornaments flanking the crowns. The design is contained within a plain, lightly raised circular border, with the overall composition occupying the full field of the flan. |
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| Reverse description | As a bracteate, this coin has no independent reverse design; the reverse shows the incuse mirror image of the obverse type, with the two confronted crowned heads and central scepter appearing in negative relief, as is characteristic of all bracteate coinage produced by thin-flan hammering technique. |
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Ottokar II of Bohemia absorbed Moravia directly under royal administration after 1253, sidelining the traditional Přemyslid appanage arrangement that had kept Moravia semi-autonomous under junior family members. These thin bracteate deniers were struck under that reorganized authority — technically Moravian issues, but reflecting Ottokar's centralizing grip on mint policy across his expanding domains. By the late 1260s he controlled territory stretching from Silesia to the Adriatic, and Moravian silver production fed that ambition directly.
Cach 943 is among the smaller bracteate types attributed to this reign, distinguished from related issues by die diameter rather than weight alone.