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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 | Uniface coin; the reverse is blank and featureless, as is standard for bracteate coinage, which is struck from a single die on a thin flan, resulting in a mirror-image incuse impression on the reverse corresponding to the obverse design. |
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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 on the Marchfeld in 1278, and the bracteate issues of his reign reflect a monetary system under sustained political stress — regency instability through the 1280s meant mint supervision was inconsistent, producing the die and weight variations that separate Cach's numbered types within this group. The bracteate format itself, a single-sided hammered fabric of such thinness that the design punches through as a mirror negative on the reverse, was already archaic by Bohemian standards in this period, persisting in regional use well after multi-sided pfennig coinage had displaced it elsewhere in Central Europe.