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Denier - Boleslaus I the Brave unknown mint
| Issuer | Kingdom of Poland |
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| Year | 992-1006 |
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| Value | 1 Denier |
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| Reverse description | Central design features a stylized architectural motif resembling a gabled church or chapel facade, rendered schematically with a triangular pediment above a rectangular body containing the letters H and N flanking a small cross or rosette. The structure is set within a plain inner circle. A surrounding circular legend in debased and partially retrograde Latin characters fills the outer field. The design is closely related to Ottonian and Bohemian denier prototypes, reflecting the early Piast dynasty's adoption of Western coinage iconography. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Bolesław I came to power in 992 following the death of his father Mieszko I, inheriting a duchy that had only formally adopted Christianity in 966. These deniers, struck somewhere in the decade or so before Bolesław assumed the royal title in 1025, represent Poland's earliest coinage — a deliberate assertion of political independence from the Holy Roman Empire, whose own pfennig designs Bolesław's moneyers closely copied. The mint location remains unresolved; Gniezno and Poznań are the most frequently proposed candidates.