A rare brakteat. Coin with cracks and gluing of parts.
The second type of Teutonic coin, which was probably the first coin of Elblag.
The distinctive brakteat with a knight with a shield was minted in two Polish cities: Torun and Elblag, which was granted a location privilege in 1246. An attempt to separate them was made by Borys Paszkiewicz, separating two groups of this type, differing in the arrangement of insignia and the shape of the cross. He attributes the present brakteat, of the second group, due to the proportion of its occurrence in treasures from the areas in question, to the Elblag mint (while stressing that this is a hypothesis).
The only coin of the Order on which a human figure appears.
Variety: a knight standing behind a smaller shield with a cross, holding a prop in his right hand and a shield in his left, next to a cross standing on the other side.
