Trębacz i bestia: nieznany brakteat z XIII wieku

• Authors: Borys Paszkiewicz

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Trumpeter and the beast: an unknown 13th century bracteate

Abstracts

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A new specimen of a bracteate showing a trumpeter on a tower and a beast (a dragon or lion) climbing it has been found in a private collection. Another specimen of this type was known in Dresden collection but it has been lost. The find provenance of both coins is unknown. It is hard to give a narrative interpretation of this motive, yet most probably it symbolises power. The trumpeter and the beast are present on some of the middle 13th century Polish ducal seals. Boleslaw the Pious, duke of Kalisz (1253) is fighting with a dragon, Casimir I, duke of Kuyavia (1250) is fighting with a lion and Lestek the Black, duke of Sieradz (1263/4) id fighting with a griffin. Behind each duke a trumpeter is blowing a horn to trumpet the duke's triumph. It is doubtful that Boleslaw the Pious, as a duke of Kalisz, could struck special type of coin and Lestek the Black was ruling too late. Therefore, the bracteate with the trumpeter on the tower and the east most presumably is a coin of Casimir I, duke of Kuyavian (1236?-1267). However, we can not exclude the possibility that the coin originates form another middle Polish or Great Poland princedom from c. 1220-1260.

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Wiadomości Numizmatyczne
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 50
• Issue: 2(182)
• Pages: 195-200

Dates

published

2006

Contributors

author

Borys Paszkiewicz

• Uniwersytet Wrocławski

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

16496592