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1 Ducat - Ferdinand II Breslau
| Issuer | Mint of Breslau (Wrocław) |
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| Year | 1620 |
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| Composition | Gold (.986) |
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| Obverse description | Crowned rampant Bohemian lion facing left, with a four-fold coat of arms bearing a central shield of the Electoral Palatinate superimposed upon the lion's body. The composition is rendered in a bold, late Renaissance style typical of Silesian hammered gold coinage. The circumferential Latin legend incorporates the mint authority of the city of Wrocław (Breslau) and the date of issue at the legend's terminus. |
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| Obverse lettering | MONE • AVRE • S • P • Q • WRATISLAV • 1620 • |
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Struck the same year the Bohemian revolt collapsed at White Mountain, this Breslau ducat was produced as the Habsburgs reasserted control over Silesia following decades of uneasy Protestant tolerance. Ferdinand II had been elected Holy Roman Emperor only the previous year, and his Silesian mints were actively demonstrating loyalty — and financial utility — to the new regime. Breslau's output in 1620 sits at an awkward intersection of political submission and municipal pride, the city retaining mint rights it would gradually lose over the following decades of Counter-Reformation consolidation.