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Denier - Leszek the White Kraków mint
| Issuer | Duchy of Kraków |
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| Year | 1194-1227 |
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| Currency | Denier (1177-1305) |
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| Reverse description | Facing bust of a figure, likely a saint or the prince himself, rendered in a schematic Romanesque manner with a prominent rounded head and stylised facial features. The bust is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, with the surrounding field largely plain due to the narrow irregular flan. No inscription is present, consistent with the aniconic, legend-less tradition of Piast deniers struck at Kraków during the late 12th and early 13th centuries. The crude but characteristic die work reflects local workshop practice of the period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Leszek the White ruled as Duke of Kraków during one of the most fractious periods of the Piast dynastic fragmentation, when Poland had been divided among competing princes since the Statute of Bolesław III in 1138. His grip on Kraków itself was intermittent — he was expelled twice, in 1202 and again in 1210, by rival claimants. Coins attributable to his Kraków mint must therefore be understood against a tenure interrupted by genuine military dispossession rather than continuous rule.
Attribution to Kopicki's third volume places this among the poorly documented early medieval Polish deniers where die linkage, not documentary evidence, drives most scholarly assignments.