Of great rarity, the legendary Pyzdra denarius and at the same time only the fourth known piece on the collector's market.
The three others are: the collection of Adam Ryszard, the Museum of the First Piasts in Legnica and the 2003 PDA auction.
No such denarius can be found in the online numismatic archives of Onebid, WCN and AN Niemczyk.
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.
To supplement the description, we would like to add some words of Prof. Dr. Borys Paszkiewicz, on this type of denarius, contained in Rocznik Historyczny - Rocznik LXXIV - 2008 (Wrocław) in the article "De moneta in Regno currente Mennictwo polskie Kazimierza Wielkiego":
"(...) First of all, to the two royal mints of Wielkopolska discussed above, the Kalisz and Poznań mints, it is necessary to 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 (...)."
Crème de la crème of the minting of Casimir the Great.
Piece characteristically well struck on the Star side, weaker on the Eagle side.
Old patina.
Among the finest 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
