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Denier poznański - Hedwig I Poznań mint
| Issuer | Kingdom of Poland |
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| Year | 1384-1386 |
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| Weight | 0.21 g |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a diagonal bishop's crozier or pastoral staff crossed with another element, possibly a sword or sceptre, arranged in a saltire-like composition across the central field. Several pellets are scattered around the design in the field, serving as decorative fillers. The overall style is crude and flat, consistent with hammered small silver coinage of this period. No surrounding legend is present, and the irregular flan shows typical die-struck weakness at the periphery. |
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| Mint | Poznań Mint |
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Hedwig I — known in Polish as Jadwiga — was only ten years old when she was crowned "King" of Poland in 1384, her title deliberately masculine to establish her as sovereign rather than consort. These deniers from the Poznań mint fall within the opening years of her reign, before her 1386 marriage to Władysław II Jagiełło fundamentally reoriented Polish foreign policy toward Lithuania and set the Jagiellonian dynasty in motion. The Poznań mint had been intermittently active through the preceding Piast fragmentation period, and its output under Jadwiga remains sparse.