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Denier - Ottokar I
| Issuer | Kingdom of Bohemia |
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| Year | 1198-1210 |
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| Value | 1 Denier |
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| Reverse description | Crowned queen seated facing, holding an open book in her left hand, with a stylised crenellated tower depicted to her right. The figures are rendered in a flat, linear Romanesque style characteristic of early 13th-century Bohemian deniers, with a beaded inner border surrounding the central design. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ottokar I secured hereditary kingship for Bohemia through the Golden Bull of Sicily in 1212, but these deniers predate that confirmation — struck during the transitional decade when his royal title was contested and twice revoked by rival imperial factions. Bohemian coinage of this period reflects that instability directly: minting rights were exercised assertively as a declaration of autonomous authority, not simply as economic necessity.
Cach 667 is among the more localized types of the reign, with distribution evidence suggesting circulation concentrated in Bohemia proper rather than the broader Přemyslid territories.