Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1719. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

POLAND. Mieszko III. 1173-1202. AR Bracteate (0.20 gm). Gnesen (Gniezno) mint. Struck 1181-1202. An eagle perched on top of a pine tree, on a broad exergual band with five annulets; annulet by eagle, Hebrew legend "brcha tba"-a blessing. Gumowsi, Hebraische 307 (as Premislaus I); Freidenberg pg. 21, 37 (as Premislaus I); Kopicki 120; Hutten-Czapski -. Good VF, iridescent toning. Missing from the Karolkiewicz collection. Very rare. ($500)

From the Robert Schonwalter Collection.

See lot 1717 for a note on the reign of Mieszko III.