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Denier Bracteate - Wenceslaus II medium
| Issuer | Kingdom of Bohemia |
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| Year | 1278-1300 |
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| Technique | Hammered (bracteate) |
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| Obverse description | Central crowned facing bust of King Wenceslaus II rendered in low relief, characteristic of the bracteate tradition in which the single-sided thin flan produces an incuse impression on the reverse. The royal effigy is depicted frontally within a beaded inner circle, with stylized regalia including a crown surmounted by pellets or fleurs. Crossed sceptres or attributes are visible before the bust, executed in the linear Romanesque-to-Gothic transitional style typical of late 13th-century Bohemian bracteates. The field surrounding the bust is plain, and the coin exhibits the irregular flan and surface cracking inherent to hammered bracteate manufacture. |
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| Reverse description | As a bracteate, this coin is single-sided; the reverse displays the incuse, mirror-image impression of the obverse design — the crowned bust of Wenceslaus II with crossed regalia — pressed through the thin silver flan during striking. The surface shows the characteristic concave relief of the bracteate technique, with no independent reverse design or legend. The flan edges are irregular and show typical stress fractures resulting from the hammering process on an extremely thin silver blank. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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