1 Ducat - Ferdinand II Breslau

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.