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1/2 Thaler - Georg III, Ludwig IV and Christian
| Issuer | Liegnitz-Brieg, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1656-1659 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Georg III, Ludwig IV, and Christian ruled Liegnitz-Brieg jointly following the death of their father Georg Rudolf in 1653 — an increasingly precarious arrangement as Habsburg pressure on Silesian Protestant duchies intensified through the 1650s. The joint coinage reflects the brothers' deliberate assertion of dynastic continuity at a moment when the Habsburgs were systematically eroding the autonomy of Silesian princes under the terms extracted after the Thirty Years' War. Christian, the last of the three, died in 1672, after which Liegnitz-Brieg reverted to Habsburg control and the independent coinage tradition ended entirely.