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1 Ducat - Charles
| Issuer | Bishopric of Breslau (Silesia) |
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| Year | 1611-1612 |
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| Weight | 3.44 g |
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| Reverse description | Two heraldic shields displayed side by side in the central field: at left, the arms of Austria (a plain fess on a field), surmounted by a princely crown; at right, the arms of the Duchy of Neisse, surmounted by a bishop's mitre, symbolising the temporal and ecclesiastical authority of the issuer. A plain inner circle encloses the shields, while the devotional Latin legend, incorporating the date 1611, begins at 12 o'clock and runs clockwise around the outer border. A beaded rim frames the entire design. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Bishopric of Breslau occupied an awkward political position in the early seventeenth century — nominally an ecclesiastical prince within the Holy Roman Empire but wedged between Habsburg dynastic ambition and the growing confessional tensions that would eventually detonate into the Thirty Years' War. Charles of Austria, the issuing authority here, was a Habsburg archduke appointed to the see in 1608 largely as an instrument of Catholic consolidation in Silesia, a region with a substantial Protestant population. His episcopate lasted only until 1624, making this two-year issue one of the shorter-window ducats of the Silesian ecclesiastical series.