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1/4 Thaler - Sylvius II Frederick Death
| Issuer | Württemberg-Oels, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1686 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Eight-line commemorative Latin inscription occupying the central field, recording the biographical details of the deceased Duchess — including dates of birth, marriage, and death — enclosed within a delicate laurel or foliate wreath. A circular Latin legend surrounds the wreath along the periphery, with fine milled dentils forming the outer border. |
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Sylvius II Frederick died in 1686 after a reign of less than two years over Württemberg-Oels, one of the fragmented Silesian duchies that had passed under Habsburg suzerainty following the Thirty Years' War. Memorial coinage — Sterbemünzen — was a firmly established tradition among the Silesian Piast-descended lines, issued as much to assert dynastic legitimacy as to mark grief. With no surviving male heir, his death effectively ended that branch, and the duchy reverted to Habsburg administration shortly after.