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Denier Bracteate - Wencezlaus II medium
| Issuer | Kingdom of Bohemia |
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| Year | 1278-1300 |
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| Value | 1 Denier |
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| Reverse description | Blank, as is characteristic of all bracteate coinage; the reverse shows only the incuse mirror impression of the obverse design resulting from the single-die hammering technique applied to the thin silver flan. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Wenceslas II inherited a fractured kingdom after his father Přemysl Otakar II was killed at the Battle of Marchfeld in 1278, and the deniers struck under his name during the regency period reflect the administrative chaos of a realm governed by a series of competing magnates while the king was a child hostage in Brandenburg. The bracteate format — a single-sided coin struck on a thin flan — was already archaic by Bohemian standards when these were issued, a deliberate conservatism in the coinage that contrasted sharply with Wenceslas's later monetary ambitions.
Cach 851 sits within a tightly grouped sequence of types attributed to this reign, distinguished by subtle die characteristics that specialists use to sequence the issues chronologically. Wenceslas would later overhaul Bohemian coinage entirely with the Prague Groschen in 1300.