Denier Bracteate - Swietopelk II the Great Gdańsk mint

Świętopełk II ruled East Pomerania for nearly five decades, spending much of that time in open conflict with the Teutonic Knights and the Polish Piast dukes — a balancing act that required constant demonstration of independent authority. Coinage was part of that demonstration. Bracteates from his reign are among the earliest attributable issues from the Gdańsk mint, a facility whose output during this period remains poorly documented in the primary sources.

Kop. 203 is known in very few confirmed specimens. The bracteate fabric — single-sided, struck on a thin flan — makes survivors particularly vulnerable to edge damage and buckling.