A brakteat with a depiction of a bishop in a robe and infula, with a pastoral and a thick cross.
The figure in which modern researchers see Saint Stanislaus, and the issue of this coin is linked to the promotion of the cult of the bishop-martyr after 1253.
As W. Garbaczewski describes it, "If we assume that this is a Malopolska issue from around the middle of the 13th century (as indicated by old finds), then either St. Stanislaus or Bishop Prandota of Cracow is depicted on the stamp (however, there are no sources to support such a point of view). A variation of this bracelet is known, where two crowned heads - presumably of the prince and his wife - appear in the rim. Such a hierarchical diminution of the symbol of princely power against the half-poster with a pastoral would only be possible if we were dealing here with St. Stanislaus.
There is a relatively high degree of consensus in the literature to date on the attribution and time of issue of this coin, but the matter is not at all that simple. For if it was minted at the same mint and at the same time as the "St. Stanislaus/St. Adalbert" denarius, why are the "factories" of the two coins so different? And why does the way this brakteate was made bring it closer to coins of a broad, unspecified group attributed to the princes of Kuyavia, Mazovia or Wielkopolska."
Very rare.
Silver, diameter 19 mm, weight 0.16 g.
