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Denier Bracteate - Wencezlaus II medium
| Issuer | Kingdom of Bohemia |
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| Year | 1278-1300 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Uniface bracteate struck in thin hammered silver. Central device depicts a facing royal bust of Wenceslaus II, rendered in low relief, wearing a crown with pellet ornaments. The face is shown frontally with stylized features typical of late 13th-century Bohemian die work. The field surrounding the bust is plain, bordered by a raised rim, with scattered pellets flanking the effigy. No legend or inscription is present. |
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| Reverse description | Uniface coin; the reverse is blank and featureless, showing only the concave impression of the obverse design as is characteristic of bracteate coinage produced from a single die on a thin silver flan. |
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Wenceslas II inherited a kingdom destabilized by the death of his father Přemysl Otakar II at the Battle of Marchfeld in 1278 — the same year this bracteate type begins. He was seven years old at the time, and Bohemia spent much of the following decade under regency and foreign interference before Wenceslas consolidated power in the late 1280s. That the royal mint maintained bracteate production through this turbulent period speaks to the administrative continuity of the Bohemian monetary apparatus despite dynastic crisis.
Cach 869 falls within the middle grouping of his bracteate issues, distinguished from the earlier and later types by subtle die characteristics documented in Cach's sequencing.