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Denier Bracteate - unknown abbot Jędrzejowski Jędrzejów mint
| Issuer | Jędrzejów Abbey |
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| Year | 1301-1399 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by a large uncial letter A in relief, rendered in a bold, archaic Gothic style characteristic of 14th-century ecclesiastical bracteates. The letter features a distinctive double-stroke crossbar bisecting the two diagonal strokes at mid-height, creating a pronounced triangular form. The design is set within a plain inner circle, surrounded by a broad, concave field typical of the bracteate fabric, with no surrounding legend. The flan is thin and uniface, with the characteristic dome-shaped curvature of a hammered bracteate, and the irregular clip edge is consistent with medieval hand-struck coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Jędrzejów Abbey, a Cistercian house founded in the 1140s as the first Cistercian establishment on Polish soil, held minting rights during the medieval period — an unusual privilege for a monastic institution in the region. The specific abbot responsible for this emission cannot be identified, a frustration common to bracteate series where institutional continuity outlasted individual record-keeping.
At 0.18g, these pieces were struck at the absolute lower boundary of functional silver coinage.