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1/2 Thaler - Christian Death of Christian
| Issuer | Liegnitz-Brieg, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1672 |
| Type | Commemorative circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSTANTER. ET. SINCERE. |
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| Reverse lettering | CHRISTIANVS. D.B. DVX. SIL. LIG. BREG. ET. WOL. NAT. OLAV. / A.C. MDCXIIX. / XIX. APRIL / DENAT. LIGNICI. / A.C. MDCLXXII / XXIX. FEBR. |
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Christian of Liegnitz-Brieg died in 1672 as the last male of the Piast line in Silesia, a dynasty that had governed the region since the thirteenth century. The Habsburgs had long maneuvered for this inheritance, and upon his death Emperor Leopold I immediately absorbed Liegnitz, Brieg, and Wohlau into the Bohemian Crown, ignoring a 1537 succession treaty with Brandenburg that Frederick the Great would later cite as justification for the First Silesian War.
Coins struck at Christian's death functioned as formal mourning issues — a convention among German princes — and this half thaler belongs to that commemorative emission rather than circulating coinage.