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Denier - Wenceslaus

Issuer Olomouc, Duchy of
Year 1126-1130
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In circulation to 1197
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Obverse script Latin
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Edge Plain
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Wenceslaus II of Olomouc held the duchy as a Přemyslid appanage during a period of intense dynastic fragmentation across Bohemia and Moravia, with multiple branches of the family simultaneously issuing coinage from competing territorial seats. The Olomouc mint operated with considerable autonomy during this window, and VP#209 sits in a small cluster of types attributable to his short rule before his death around 1130.

Vladimír Píč's corpus remains the primary reference framework for Přemyslid deniers of this period, and attribution disputes within the VP 200-series are not uncommon — provenance and die-linkage studies have occasionally reassigned pieces between Wenceslaus II and his contemporaries.

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