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½ Thaler - Leopold I Breslau
| Issuer | Breslau Mint (Wrocław) |
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| Year | 1695 |
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| Weight | 13.94 g |
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| Obverse lettering | LEOPOLDUS D G ROM IMP SE A G H B REX |
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| Reverse lettering | ARCHIDVX AVS DVX BVR E SILE 1695 M M W |
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Leopold I's Silesian coinage from the 1690s was produced against a backdrop of near-continuous military expenditure — the Nine Years' War in the west and the ongoing campaign to expel the Ottomans from Hungary were draining imperial finances simultaneously. Breslau, as the administrative capital of Habsburg Silesia, operated its mint with considerable local autonomy, and Silesian issues from this period frequently diverge from Viennese standards in subtle ways that continue to complicate attribution.
The Herinek reference range 1657–1740 reflects how broadly Leopold's Silesian output must be catalogued — a reign of 47 years generating enormous typological variety across multiple mints.