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1 Ducat - Georg III, Ludwig IV and Christian
| Issuer | Liegnitz-Brieg, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1651-1652 |
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| Value | 1 Ducat (2) |
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| Obverse lettering | D:G:GEORGIVS.LVDOVICVS.ET.ChRISTIAN:FRATRES |
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| Mintage | 1651 VT - - 1652 VT - 165Z - 1652 VT - 165Z/1 - |
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The Piast dukes of Liegnitz-Brieg occupied an increasingly precarious position after the Thirty Years' War. Georg III, Ludwig IV, and Christian were ruling jointly under the feudal arrangements that characterized the fragmented Silesian duchies — but Habsburg pressure to absorb the territories had been building for decades. This joint coinage reflects a deliberate assertion of dynastic continuity at a moment when that continuity was under direct threat from Vienna.
The line died out in 1675 with Georg Wilhelm, at which point the Habsburgs immediately incorporated Liegnitz-Brieg into Bohemia, exactly as they had long intended.