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Denier - Ladislaus II the Exile Kraków mint
| Issuer | Kingdom of Poland |
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| Year | 1138-1146 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Within a beaded inner circle, two figures depicted in combat or struggle: a standing armed knight holding a raised sword in his right hand, confronting a kneeling figure subdued beneath him, rendered in the archaic Romanesque style characteristic of early Polish medieval coinage. A small head or bust appears above the central scene, possibly representing a divine or regal witness. The surrounding field between the beaded circle and the irregular coin edge bears a partial Latin legend reading LODIZLAVS, interspersed with decorative cross and floral motifs. The overall die work is bold but primitive, with flat relief typical of hammered Piast dynasty deniers. |
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| Reverse description | A dynamic scene in high relief depicting a warrior or princely figure, shown frontally in a short tunic with a raised sword in his right hand, engaged in combat with a large beast — most likely a lion — which he grasps by the neck or head with his left hand. To the left of the figure, a stylised plant or ear of grain is visible in the field. The composition fills the entire flan to the edge, with no legend present, consistent with the reverse type of Kopicki 49a and 49b. The rendering is vigorous but schematic, in keeping with the Romanesque artistic tradition of twelfth-century Polish minting. |
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Ladislaus II earned his epithet not during his reign but after it — expelled by his own brothers and the Polish nobility in 1146, he spent the remainder of his life at the court of his brother-in-law Conrad III, never returning to Poland. These deniers were struck during the fragmented senior duchy period that followed Bolesław III's 1138 testament, which deliberately divided Poland among his sons to prevent exactly the kind of consolidation Ladislaus was attempting. The plan failed politically almost immediately.
Kop#49a and 49b represent die variants within a type that saw only eight years of production before the issuer's permanent exile.