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1/4 Thaler - Georg III, Ludwig IV and Christian
| Issuer | Duchy of Liegnitz-Brieg |
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| Year | 1653-1659 |
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| Diameter | 32 mm |
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| Obverse description | Three armored half-length figures of the co-ruling dukes Georg III, Ludwig IV, and Christian facing forward in fraternal portrait, wearing plate armour with elaborate lace collars. A small imperial orb is positioned at the top center above the figures, serving as a mark of imperial authority. The lower portion of the field is decorated with arabesques in the exergue beneath the busts. The circumferential Latin legend names all three ruling brothers and is separated from the central design by a beaded inner border. |
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| Reverse lettering | DUCES:SILIASIÆ·LIGNIC/ENSIS·ET·BRIGENSES·1653· |
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Georg III, Ludwig IV, and Christian ruled Liegnitz-Brieg jointly as the last of the Silesian Piast line — a dynasty that had governed in Silesia since the thirteenth century. The joint portrait coinage of these three brothers reflects the duchy's particular succession arrangement, which kept the territory undivided among male heirs even as Habsburg pressure on Silesian autonomy intensified through the mid-seventeenth century. Christian, the youngest, outlived his brothers and died without a male heir in 1672, at which point the Habsburgs absorbed the duchy directly under the terms of the 1537 inheritance treaty they had long held in reserve.