Denier Bracteate - Wenceslaus I large

Wenceslaus I ruled Bohemia during a period of intensive German colonization — he actively recruited settlers from the Holy Roman Empire, and the bracteate coinage of his reign reflects that cultural pull, drawing on south German minting traditions rather than older Přemyslid forms. Cach 707 is among the larger module issues of his reign, a deliberate choice that gave more surface area to the die cutter at the cost of fragility in the thin fabric.

Bracteates of this type are notoriously prone to cracking along the edges, and fully intact examples are genuinely uncommon.