A great rarity, the legendary Pyzdry denarius and at the same time only the fifth known piece on the collector's market.
Two denarii are in the collections of Adam Richard and the Museum of the First Piasts in Lednica, and another two have appeared at auctions.
Rarity also confirmed by the highest grade in Kopicki's catalog - R* (known to the author in one piece).
Undoubtedly, a coin of unique character.
Prof. Dr. Borys Paszkiewicz in Rocznik Historyczny - Rocznik LXXIV - 2008 (Wrocław) in the article "De moneta in Regno currente Mennictwo polskie Kazimierza Wielkiego" describes this denarius minted in Pyzdry as follows:
"(...) First of all, to the two royal mints of Greater Poland discussed above, the Kalisz and Poznań mints, one must add a third one in Pyzdry. Here coins were minted with a side with an eagle coinciding with the other denarii of Wielkopolska, and on the other side with a six-rayed star surrounded by the legend MONETA PIZRENSI (...). The star is probably a symbol of the patron saint of Pyzdry, the Blessed Virgin Mary, so the Pyzdry money is rather parallel to the Poznan denarius with keys, also showing the patron saint sign, rather than an earthly emblem. If the minting of bilateral denarii in Greater Poland had two phases, these two coins presumably belong to the second of them (...). Thus, we can suppose that there was also a third mint minting denarii of this type (...)."
The most beautiful piece of this type on the auction market, in our opinion.
Exceptionally high legibility on both sides of the coin: on the obverse there is a well-preserved Star, but also what is extremely important a large part of the obverse legend, i.e. PIZREN (from the word PIZRENSI), on the reverse there is a well-preserved large part of the Eagle.
This is significant because on the other two pieces that occurred at the auctions, none were so legible.
The crème de la crème of Casimir the Great's minting - to the finest collections.
Obverse: Piast eagle, in the rim an inscription;
Reverse: six-beam star, in the rim an inscription PIZREN (+MONETA PIZRENSI);
Diameter 10.6 mm, weight 0.17 g.
