One of the rarest types from the group of brakteats considered to be issues of Leszek the White from the Duchy of Cracow.
Only the second one in our offer.
Very deep, distinct minting for the single known pieces of this type. Prominent puckering reaching the shaft.
Depiction: bust of a man with a short beard to the right, wearing a crown, with a small pendant on the back, in secular dress, around architectural elements: fragments of arcades with domed turrets, on their outside single rhombuses.
According to Prof. Boris Paszkiewicz, the model was most likely the Miinzenberg brakteat, but not directly. The crown, previously described as a mitre (due to the low legibility of the pieces known so far), is similar to the one we see on Pilate's head in the Gniezno Evangeliary or on the heads of the landgraves of Thuringia. The rhombuses on the sides may derive from the buildings attached to the towers, depicted in a perspective slant, not properly understood by the creator - in which case this element must have been taken directly from Germany.
According to Prof. Borys Paszkiewicz, it is most likely that the bracelet in question is considered a coin of one of the descendants of Casimir the Just. Proposed attributions are Leszek the White or Konrad Mazowiecki.
Cracow (or Sandomierz) issue of 1230-40, before the Mongol invasion of 1241.
Silver, diameter 14 mm, weight 0.07 g.
