New Moravian deniers of the C 301 type struck under Břetislaus I and found at the Vraclav hillfort

Abstract

Two fragments of extraordinarily rare Moravian deniers of the C 301 type struck under Břetislaus I before 1030 were found during archaeological surface examinations at the Vraclav hillfort (Ústí nad Orlicí district, Pardubice region) in 2006–2016. There is the name of Břetislaus without his princely title on obverse, and the name of St. Clement, the Moravian patron, on reverse. Besides the described fragments, only four specimens of this type are known from foreign hoards (finds). Both fragments from the Vraclav hillfort represent the earliest precisely datable proof of penetration of the Moravian coins into the Bohemian territory.