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1 Ducat - Christian Ulrich von Bernstadt Death
| Issuer | Württemberg-Oels, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1680 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | CHRIST. VLR. - D. G. DUX. W. T. O. B. |
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Christian Ulrich von Bernstadt died in 1680 as the last male of his particular branch of the Württemberg-Oels Piast line — one of the Silesian appanage duchies whose political fragmentation had made them highly susceptible to Habsburg absorption upon dynastic extinction. This ducat is a memorial issue struck at his death, a genre common among Silesian Protestant nobility as a means of asserting dynastic continuity and distributing grief politically. The Bernstadt holdings reverted to the broader Württemberg-Oels ducal family rather than being absorbed outright by Vienna, at least temporarily.
Silesian memorial ducats of this period were typically struck in very small numbers, distributed at the funeral or to allied courts.