A great rarity, the legendary Pyzdra 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 PDA and RDA auctions.
Uniqueness confirmed by the highest degree of rarity in Kopicki's catalog - R* (known to the author in one piece).
A unique and spectacular numismatic piece.
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, it can be presumed that there was also a third mint minting denarii of this type (...)."
Crème de la crème of the minting of Casimir the Great.
On the obverse is the well-preserved Star, but also, unusually, the honorific of the obverse legend, i.e. PIZR... (from the word PIZRENSI).
On the reverse, which is characteristic of these coins, legible only elements of the Eagle.
Old patina.
For the most exquisite collections.
Obverse: Piast eagle, in the rim an inscription.
Reverse: six-beam star, in the rim an inscription (+MONETA PIZRENSI).
Diameter 11 mm, weight 0.12 g
