Denier - Ladislaus I the Elbow-high Kraków mint

Ladislaus I reunified a fragmented Poland after nearly a century of Piast dynastic division, and his Kraków mint was central to that project. The denier issues of his reign represent the first royal coinage struck from Kraków following its re-establishment as the kingdom's capital — a status the city had lost during the period of provincial fragmentation. Ladislaus was only crowned king in 1320, meaning coins struck before that date were issued under ducal rather than royal authority, a distinction that affects how surviving pieces are cataloged.

Kop#312 places this type within a series notorious for weak and off-center strikes, a consistent production problem tied to the Kraków mint's infrastructure rather than die quality.