Obol - Boleslaus I the Cruel

Boleslaus I earned his epithet by murdering his brother Wenceslas in 935 — the same Wenceslas later canonized and commemorated in carol — and then held Bohemia against the Ottonian empire for fourteen years of near-continuous warfare before submitting to Otto I around 950. These obols, among the earliest struck coinage of Bohemia, were produced under a ruler who simultaneously built the Přemyslid state into a functioning political entity and maintained it by force. Cach 37 is a cross-type attribution within a series where die links and weight variation still generate scholarly disagreement over precise dating.