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Denier - Spitignew II
| Issuer | Unified Moravia and Margraviate |
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| Year | 1048-1050 |
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| Currency | Early Moravia Deniers (1029-1054) |
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| Obverse lettering | +ZITISNE[V:CVX] |
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| Reverse lettering | ERTVS[TS:VNLIE] |
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Spytihněv II ruled Bohemia from 1055, but his association with a Moravian issue dated 1048–1050 places this denier in the murky transitional period when Moravia was divided among Přemyslid princes under loose Bohemian suzerainty — a political arrangement constantly destabilized by dynastic rivalry and Salian imperial pressure. Coins attributable to this specific phase are extraordinarily rare survivors; Moravian deniers of the mid-eleventh century circulated in a region where minting authority was fragmented and short-lived.
Šmerda 314 and Cach 321 are not always in agreement on die attribution for pieces from this reign segment, reflecting how little primary documentation survives for Moravian issues of the 1040s.