Henry the Bearded, Brakteat DUX C[RACOVI]EN

Extremely rare type of coin from the Cracow period of the reign of Henry the Bearded.

A coin of a typically inaugural character, commemorating the assumption of ducal power. Anonymous (without the duke's name), but with a very characteristic iconography - a figure with a beard. The fact that the beard interrupts the ottoman inscription here is significant. It testifies to the importance of this element in relation to the figure depicted.

Struck during the period of inscription-free bracelets, it is also all the more important to appreciate its uniqueness.

This is the fourth known piece.

Apart from this one, 1 piece is in the National Museum in Cracow (crumbled, after restoration), and two in private collections (the first one whole but shallowly struck, the second one fragmentary, about 2/3 of the coin).