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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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| Obverse description | Enthroned ruler facing forward, depicted in a stylized Romanesque manner, holding a sceptre in the right hand and an orb or similar regalia in the left. The figure wears a crown and robes rendered in bold, schematic relief characteristic of early Bohemian hammered coinage. The field is plain with no surrounding legend, and the flan is irregularly shaped as typical of deniers of this period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ottokar I spent the 1190s playing the warring Hohenstaufen and Welf factions against each other with considerable skill, and his monetary reward was literal: Frederick II's Golden Bull of Sicily in 1212 confirmed hereditary kingship for Bohemia, but the deniers of this earlier 1198–1210 window were struck while that status was still being negotiated and fought over. The Cach#666 type belongs to the transitional coinage issued after Ottokar secured the royal title for the first time from Philip of Swabia in 1198 — a title he would have to win twice before it stuck permanently.