An uncommon brakteat on the antiquarian market.
Piast brakteat with a depiction of a male head (of a ruler) facing 3/4 to the right, with additional points in front of it.
As Witold Garbaczewski points out, "I do not know of another similar one.
We originally classified it as a head bearing individualized features - a clearly outlined hairstyle, a nose. The prominence of such features is known, among others, from the coins of Mieszko III, where long hair is consistently accentuated, or parts of the coins of Henry the Bearded, where just the beard is exposed. According to Witold Garbaczewski, in this case, however, these features are not individualized, although it might seem so if only in the context of the eyebrow arch. The head itself iconographically does not bring us closer to attribution. It could be either a ruler or a saint without a nimbus.
The style of the coin indicates 2nd quarter of the 13th century, more likely from a mint in the Lesser Poland area (perhaps Kujawy or Wielkopolska).
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