A valuable, very rare Kraków brakteat from the mid-13th century.
A brakteat of the Duchy of Cracow with a mysterious mint mark, arousing discussions among numismatists for years. K. Stronczynski saw here a "crooked saber", M. Gumowski "as if a saber stuck in the heart", while J. Szwagrzyk saw a crossbow. However, as Witold Garbaczewski points out,"perhaps, however, this is a symbolic representation of a princely territory guarded by a ready to defend and brave ruler."
Representation: standing figure of a knight wearing a helmet, facing left, holding a flag. In front of her the mint mark, behind her two rings and stars each.
Very nice, only with slight cracks in the disc outside the abalone and one chipping. We had a similar condition of this brakteat in only one auction - during the sale of an outstanding medieval collection at our 10th auction.
Silver, diameter 20 mm, weight 0.13 g.
