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Denier - Bretislaus I
| Issuer | Kingdom of Bohemia |
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| Year | 1034-1050 |
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| Value | 1 Denier |
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| Obverse description | Central cross pattée within a beaded inner circle, with four smaller crosses in the cardinal quadrants forming a quincunx arrangement. The field between the inner and outer beaded border is occupied by the retrograde or irregular Latin legend BRACISLAV, referencing Duke Bretislaus I of Bohemia. The overall design is characteristic of Bohemian deniers of the early Přemyslid period, showing strong influence from Ottonian and Bavarian coinage traditions. The die-cutting is bold and slightly irregular, consistent with hand-hammered medieval minting practice. |
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| Reverse lettering | WENCESNVS (Translation: Wenceslaus) |
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Bretislav I consolidated Bohemian territory aggressively during his reign, briefly seizing Silesia, Moravia, and much of Poland in the early 1030s — campaigns that required substantial military financing and likely drove the volume of his minting activity. His coinage circulated across a politically unstable region where borders shifted with each campaign season.
Cach 310 is among the more consistently documented types of his output, though die-link studies remain incomplete and attribution of individual specimens sometimes relies on provenance as much as typology.