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Denier - Svatopluk
| Issuer | Olomouc, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1095-1107 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Frontal standing figure, likely a bishop or saint, depicted in a schematic Romanesque style with arms extended outward and wearing liturgical vestments rendered with incised vertical lines. A stylized face with prominent features is visible at the top of the figure. Fragmentary Latin letters are distributed in the four quadrants of the field around the central motif. The design is enclosed within a toothed border on an irregularly shaped flan characteristic of hammered coinage of the period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Svatopluk ruled Olomouc as a Přemyslid duke before seizing the Bohemian throne in 1107, a transition marked by the murder of his predecessor Bořivoj II's supporters. His Olomouc deniers are among the thinner issues of the regional Přemyslid series, struck at a moment when the Bohemian lands were fracturing into competing appanage duchies with no unified minting authority. Cach 433 is scarce in any condition — output from the Olomouc duchy was modest, and Svatopluk's reign there ended abruptly when he redirected his political ambitions toward Prague.