¼ Thaler - George Frederick I

George Frederick of Brandenburg-Ansbach acquired Jägerndorf in 1543 and governed the Silesian duchy as a Protestant enclave under nominally Catholic Habsburg suzerainty — a tension that would eventually see his descendants expelled from the territory entirely after 1621. This 1578 piece was struck roughly four decades into that arrangement, during a period when Silesian mints were producing fractional thalers in considerable variety to meet regional trade demand.

The Jägerndorf mint operated intermittently, and output for this denomination in the 1570s is poorly documented in surviving records.