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Notae Numismaticae - Zapiski Numizmatyczne — 3/​4.1999

DOI article:
Paszkiewicz, Borys: The Sicilian design on the Opole coin and the genesis of the white eagle
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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21230#0341

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TOM III/IV
KRAKÓW 1999

BORYS PASZKIEWICZ

Department of Archaeology, The Maria Curie-Sklodowska University
Lublin

THE SICILIAN DESIGN ON THE OPOLE COIN
AND THE GENESIS OF THE WHITE EAGLE

The bracteate with eagle, of which the bottom part of the trunk
is replaced by a human head turned to the right (according to the
heraldic order), with the legend VLADIZLAVS (known as the Uladi-
zlaus bracteate, thanks to the specific type of the inscription) has been
known sińce the publication of the hoard at Brzegi on the Nida,1 where
two such specimens occurred (fig. 1). Only later was the specimen that
had been found in Radzanowo near Płock2 a few decades earlier, pu-

1 M. Gumowski, Wykopalisko monet z XIII w. w Brzegach nad Nidą (Coin Hoard from the
13th Centuryfrom Brzegi on the Nida), Kraków 1917, pp. 61-62.

2 Idem, Wykopalisko brakteatów w Radzanowie (The bracteate hoard at Radzanowo), WNA,
XIX, 1937, p. 13, no. 62; E. Jędrysek-Migdalska, Skarb brakteatów z Radzanowa nad Wkrą (The
Bracteate Hoard from Radzanów on the Wkra), Płock 1976, p. 21, no. 93. I conjecture -
which is not certain, though highly likely - that in both works the selfsame example is
described.

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