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Denier Bracteate toruński - Casimir IV Jagiellon Toruń mint
| Issuer | Kingdom of Poland |
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| Year | 1446-1492 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Bracteate denier struck on a thin, irregularly shaped silver flan. The central device consists of a cross pattée or cross with expanded terminals, rendered in relief within a plain inner circle or border of dots. The cross occupies the majority of the field, with the arms extending nearly to the inner border. The coin exhibits the characteristic shallow relief and slight cupping typical of hammered bracteate coinage of the Toruń mint under Casimir IV Jagiellon. No legend is present on this type. |
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| Mintage | ND (1446-1492) - - ND (1446-1492) - - ND (1446-1492) - - |
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Casimir IV Jagiellon's long reign coincided with the Thirteen Years' War against the Teutonic Order, which ended with the Second Peace of Toruń in 1466 — ceding the very city where these bracteates were struck back to Poland. The Toruń mint, formerly under Teutonic control, resumed Polish production partly as a deliberate assertion of recovered jurisdiction over Prussian territory. Bracteate coinage of this type was already archaic by the mid-fifteenth century, a survival of earlier Prussian minting conventions rather than mainstream Polish practice.
Kop#8207–8209 represent die variants within the same issue, distinguished by minor differences in the central stamp impression.