Denier Bracteate - Ottokar II small

Ottokar II acquired Moravia before his contested ascension to the Bohemian throne, and these thin, single-sided bracteates were struck during a period when he was aggressively consolidating territory stretching eventually from the Adriatic to Silesia. Bracteate production in this region was already declining elsewhere in the Empire by the mid-thirteenth century, making Moravian issues of this type something of a regional holdout against the growing preference for thicker bilateral coinage.

Cach 919 sits among the smaller-module varieties, distinguished from related types by die characteristics documented in Frantisek Cach's foundational Czech medieval numismatic corpus.