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1/4 Thaler - Georg Wilhelm Death of Georg Wilhelm
| Issuer | Liegnitz-Brieg, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1675 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse lettering | GEORG. WILH. D. G. DVX. SILE. LIGN. BREG. & WOL. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Georg Wilhelm, the last Piast duke of Liegnitz-Brieg, died in 1675 without a male heir. The Habsburg emperor Leopold I immediately seized the duchy, extinguishing a ruling house that had governed Silesia for over four centuries. This coin was struck as a memorial issue marking that death — and simultaneously, though perhaps unintentionally, marking the end of an independent Silesian dynastic coinage tradition altogether. The Habsburgs absorbed the mint along with the territory.