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Denier Bracteate - Wenceslaus I
| Issuer | Kingdom of Bohemia |
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| Year | 1230-1253 |
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| Value | 1 Denier |
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| Obverse description | Uniface bracteate struck in thin silver sheet, displaying a centrally positioned enthroned figure in frontal aspect, rendered in the Romanesque style characteristic of Bohemian minting under Wenceslaus I. The design, visible in shallow relief typical of bracteate technique, features a stylized royal or episcopal effigy with flanking decorative elements. The composition is enclosed within a raised circular border, with the flat, unworked reverse serving as the counterpart to the impressed obverse design. The overall execution reflects the conventions of mid-thirteenth-century Central European bracteate coinage. |
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| Reverse description | Uniface coin; the reverse is blank and featureless, as is characteristic of bracteate coinage, where the design is impressed from the obverse through a single thin silver flan, leaving no independent reverse type or legend. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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