Polabie, Stodoranie, Przybysław Henry, denarius, before 1150, men. Brenna (Brandenburg).
Av. ...C I... (from HEINRICVS name written backwards); ruler in helmet, on horseback, with pennant to right, cross behind his back.
Rv. ...E D N.. (from the retrospectively inscribed name BRANDEBVRC), three-winged structure.
Silver, 0.76 g, 21.2 mm. Bahrfeldt Brand. I, 1a-b.
Condition II, cabinet patina.
An unusual souvenir of the forming Slavic state on the Spree and Havel rivers, paradoxically placed in German numismatics at the beginning of the history of "Brandenburg-Prussia". Przybysław Henry was the penultimate ruler of the Slavic people of Stodoran (Hobolan) and the first to mint a named coin there (earlier issues of imitation coins are possible). There is no royal title on the coin, but it is known from chronicles that Przybysław was a king and used a crown (although a whole host of historians try to convince us that this was some kind of "king in disguise," contemporaries suggested nothing of the sort). Having no children of his own, he adopted the Saxon margrave Albrecht the Bear, but Albrecht was removed from Brenna after a few years by a relative of Przybyslaw, dubbed "Jaksa of Poland" by the chronicler, the last Slavic ruler of Stodoran. Despite the efforts of historians (mainly German), it is impossible to blur his obvious identity with Jaksa of Miechow, the founder of the great monastery of the Bohemians of the Holy Sepulchre in that city.
