Ottokar II held Moravia as margrave only briefly before seizing the Bohemian throne in 1253, which makes this issue a product of an unusually compressed political moment. His father Wenceslas I had effectively sidelined him — Ottokar's control of Moravia was itself the result of a rebellion against paternal authority in 1248, temporarily suppressed and then grudgingly formalized.
Cach 898 is among the more precisely attributed deniers of this transitional period, a series where die workmanship varies considerably across the short window of issue.
Ottokar II held Moravia as margrave only briefly before seizing the Bohemian throne in 1253, which makes this issue a product of an unusually compressed political moment. His father Wenceslas I had effectively sidelined him — Ottokar's control of Moravia was itself the result of a rebellion against paternal authority in 1248, temporarily suppressed and then grudgingly formalized.
Cach 898 is among the more precisely attributed deniers of this transitional period, a series where die workmanship varies considerably across the short window of issue.