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Denier - Ottokar I and Wenceslaus I
| Issuer | Kingdom of Bohemia |
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| Year | 1228-1230 |
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| Value | 1 Denier |
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| Obverse description | Central field depicts a stylized figure, likely a crowned royal bust or head, rendered in the crude, high-relief hammered style characteristic of early Bohemian medieval coinage. The design is enclosed within a beaded or rope-pattern inner circle, surrounded by a further decorative border of pellets or trefoils. The legends, where legible, are arranged in a circular band around the central motif. The overall execution reflects the irregular flan and variable striking pressure typical of 13th-century Bohemian deniers. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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These deniers occupy a precise administrative moment: the co-regency period when the aging Ottokar I, having secured Bohemia's hereditary royal status through the Golden Bull of Sicily in 1212, began transferring effective governance to his son Wenceslaus before his death in December 1230. Cach 701 is among the few coin types explicitly attributable to this transitional joint authority rather than to either ruler alone.
The type's two-year window makes survivors genuinely scarce by Bohemian denier standards.