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Denier - Emma
| Issuer | Kingdom of Bohemia |
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| Year | 985-995 |
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| Weight | 0.9 g |
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| Obverse lettering | EMMA REGINA (Translation: Emma, the queen.) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Emma was the wife of Boleslaus II, Duke of Bohemia, and one of the very few women in early medieval Central Europe to have coins struck in her own name during her husband's lifetime. Whether this reflected genuine co-regency, Frankish queenly tradition she brought from her origins in the west, or simple political pragmatism on Boleslaus's part remains unresolved among Czech numismatists. Cach 145 is among the more precisely documented of the Emma deniers, though the series as a whole is notoriously difficult to sequence due to inconsistent die workmanship across the Bohemian mints of the period.