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Denier - Sobeslaus I
| Issuer | Olomouc, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1130-1135 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Frontal bust of a ruler depicted in a crude, archaic style characteristic of early Bohemian medieval coinage, set within a beaded inner circle. The figure appears robed and facing forward, with stylized facial features rendered in low relief. The surrounding field is plain, with remnants of a peripheral legend partially visible along the outer rim. The hammered flan is irregular, with uneven edges typical of the period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Soběslav I ruled Bohemia as duke from 1125, but Olomouc retained its own appanage coinage struck by local Přemyslid branch lords — a arrangement that produced regionally distinct issues even when political authority overlapped with Prague. The specific attribution of this denier to the Olomouc table rather than the Bohemian central mint rests primarily on die analysis catalogued by Šmerda, whose corpus remains the definitive reference for Moravian bracteate-era coinage.