A nicely minted and preserved piece.
The Prague penny, also known as the broad penny, was a coin introduced by Wenceslas II in the year of his coronation as King of Poland (1300), which captured the money market not only in Bohemia. Minted in Kutná Hora, where the silver for its large issue was mined, it was present in widespread circulation in the territories of Poland as well as Lithuania and Silesia. This is evidenced by the numerous treasures of Prague pennies found in our territories and the influence that the issue of this denomination had on our minting, of which the Cracow penny of Casimir III the Great is a clear example. This striking coin, which was large for the time, was minted until 1547, maintaining a single type throughout that time.
