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½ Thaler - George Rudolph
| Issuer | Duchy of Liegnitz-Brieg (Silesia) |
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| Year | 1622 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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George Rudolph ruled Liegnitz-Brieg during one of the most financially destructive episodes in Central European history — the Kipper- und Wipperzeit, the currency debasement crisis of 1619–1623, when mints across the German lands raced to produce debased coinage and profit from the chaos. Silesian mints were heavily implicated. A silver half thaler from 1622 represents the harder-money end of what the duchy was producing; base-metal Kipper issues from the same years are considerably more common.
George Rudolph died in 1653 without a male heir, after which the Piast line of Liegnitz-Brieg attempted a succession arrangement that the Habsburgs refused to honor, eventually absorbing the duchy in 1675.