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Denier Bracteate - Swietopelk II the Great Gdańsk mint
| Issuer | Duchy of East Pomerania |
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| Year | 1217-1266 |
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| Value | 1 Denier |
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| Obverse description | Typical bracteate uniface strike showing a highly stylized heraldic eagle motif in the central field, rendered in low relief characteristic of thin hammered bracteate coinage. The design features the abstract outline of a raptor with spread wings, executed in the crude but bold Romanesque manner common to Pomeranian deniers of the early thirteenth century. The flan is irregular and thin, with the image slightly off-center as is typical of hand-struck bracteates of this period. No legend or inscription is present. The entire surface displays the characteristic concave-convex distortion inherent to bracteate production technique. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Świętopełk II ruled East Pomerania for nearly five decades, a tenure marked by relentless conflict with the Teutonic Knights, the Piast dukes of Poland, and his own brothers. The bracteate form — a single-die, one-sided thin silver strike — was the dominant coinage technology in the southern Baltic region during this period, adopted precisely because the minimal silver content suited the monetary realities of fragmented, frequently warring principalities.
The Gdańsk attribution is based on Świętopełk's consolidation of that port town as his primary seat of power after 1227.