Denier Bracteate - Wencezlaus II medium

Wenceslas II inherited Bohemia in 1278 as a seven-year-old following his father Ottokar II's death at the Battle on the Marchfeld, with the kingdom effectively administered by regents until he assumed real power in the late 1280s. The bracteate denier — a single-sided thin silver striking — was the dominant small denomination of Bohemian commerce throughout this period, produced in large quantities to serve a silver-rich economy built on the Kutná Hora mines that Wenceslas would later reorganize under the Ius Regale Montanorum in 1300.

Cach 856 places this piece within the middle typological grouping of his reign's bracteate output.