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Denier - Ottokar I
| Issuer | Kingdom of Bohemia |
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| Year | 1192-1193 |
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| Value | 1 Denier |
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| Reverse description | Within a beaded inner circle, a frontal bust of a bishop or ecclesiastical figure, nimbed and wearing liturgical vestments, holding a crozier or staff in the left hand and a cross or sceptre in the right hand. Crude, partially legible letters or symbols appear in the outer field around the inner circle, consistent with a degenerate Latin inscription. The design is rendered in the flat, linear Romanesque style typical of late 12th-century Bohemian deniers. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ottokar I's first reign lasted barely a year. Deposed in 1193 after Duke Henry Břetislav seized power with Hohenstaufen backing, he would not recover the Bohemian throne until 1197 — and would hold it long enough to extract the Golden Bull of Sicily from Frederick II in 1212, transforming the duchy into a hereditary kingdom. Cach 654 belongs to that first, interrupted reign, which makes its attribution window unusually tight for a medieval Bohemian issue.