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Denier - Casimir III the Great Kraków mint
| Issuer | Kingdom of Poland |
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| Year | 1333-1370 |
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| Value | 1 Denier |
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| Obverse description | Crowned Gothic monogram of King Casimir III (Kazimierz), rendered in interlaced letterforms occupying the central field of the flan. The design is characteristic of the Kraków mint's hammered coinage of the mid-fourteenth century, with the crowned initial serving as the primary royal identifier in the absence of a portrait effigy. The die work is bold but irregular, consistent with hand-struck medieval silver deniers of this period. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Casimir III inherited a kingdom fragmented by decades of weak central rule and immediately set about standardizing its monetary system — the deniers struck at Kraków under his authority were part of that deliberate fiscal consolidation. He is the only Polish king to earn the epithet "the Great" by consensus of later historians, largely on the strength of administrative and legal reforms rather than military conquest.
Kop#326 is among the more frequently encountered of his issues, though attribution can be complicated by die wear and the crude striking conditions typical of 14th-century Polish minting practice. Casimir died in 1370 without a male heir, ending the Piast dynasty after over four centuries.