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1 Ducat - George Frederick I
| Issuer | Jägerndorf, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1578 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse description | Quartered coat of arms bearing a central inescutcheon with the Brandenburg eagle, the four quarters displaying the heraldic devices of the associated territories. The date 1578 appears above the shield. A continuous Latin legend surrounding the field records the titles and name of Georg Friedrich, Margrave of Brandenburg and Duke of Silesia-Jägerndorf. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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George Frederick I governed Jägerndorf as a cadet branch holding of the Hohenzollern dynasty — the same house that would eventually consolidate Brandenburg-Prussia into a European power. In 1578, he was simultaneously Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, making his Silesian duchy something of an afterthought administratively, which likely explains the modest surviving population of ducats struck in his name from Jägerndorf.
The Friedensburg reference places this among the documented Silesian gold issues, a category thin enough that individual specimens routinely appear only once or twice per decade at major auction houses.