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Denier Bracteate - Swietopelk II the Great Gdańsk mint
| Issuer | Duchy of East Pomerania |
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| Year | 1217-1266 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field depicts a long-shafted cross or staff rising vertically, flanked on either side by groups of pellets or globules arranged in triangular clusters, suggestive of stylized foliage or heraldic decoration. To the right of the staff, a diagonal element — possibly a horn or wing — extends across the field in low relief. The entire design is enclosed within a raised inner ring, itself bounded by the characteristic irregular flan edge of bracteate coinage. The composition is rendered in the simple, bold die-cutting style typical of 13th-century Pomeranian bracteates, with no legend present. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Świętopełk II ruled Pomerelia with unusual ambition for a regional duke, spending much of his reign in open conflict with the Teutonic Knights and the Polish Piast dukes simultaneously. His minting activity at Gdańsk was part of a deliberate assertion of independent authority during decades when the political future of the southern Baltic coast was genuinely unsettled.
Bracteates of this type are struck on thin single-sided flans, making surviving examples with full, uncracked strikes considerably scarcer than mintage alone would suggest. Kop#208 is among the more frequently cited attributions in Polish medieval numismatics, though die-to-die variation within the type is substantial.