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½ Thaler - Heinrich
| Issuer | Counts of Schlick (Kingdom of Bohemia) |
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| Year | 1627 |
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| Reference(s) | Fiala#203, KM#131 |
| Obverse description | Three armored figures stand facing, the central figure slightly larger and prominently positioned, flanked by two smaller armored attendants; all three wear plumed helmets. Below the group, the quartered Schlick family coat of arms is displayed on a shield. A rope-style inner border frames the design, with the Latin legend reading HEINRICVS SCHLICK COMES A PASSAN encircling the field, accompanied by the initials S A and F C flanking the shield. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Schlick family's minting operation at Joachimsthal gave the world the Joachimsthaler — the coin whose name contracted into "thaler" and eventually "dollar." By 1627, however, the family had lost direct control of the Joachimsthal mint decades earlier, stripped of it by the Habsburgs after the Schmalkaldic era. This piece was struck under what remained of their comital minting rights, increasingly constrained following the Battle of White Mountain in 1620 and the wholesale reorganization of Bohemian noble privileges that followed.
Heinrich X, Count Schlick, navigated a dangerous post-rebellion environment. The family had not joined the Bohemian revolt, which bought them survival if not full restoration.