1 Ducat - Jakob von Salza

Jakob von Salza, Bishop of Breslau from 1520 to 1539, operated in one of the most theologically fractured dioceses in Central Europe — Silesia had absorbed Lutheran influence earlier and more completely than nearly any other Catholic territory of comparable size, and von Salza spent much of his episcopate negotiating an uneasy coexistence rather than enforcing orthodoxy. That political balancing act did not stop him from exercising full temporal coinage rights. The Bishopric of Breslau held those rights continuously through the Jagiellonian and early Habsburg periods, and this ducat sits within that longer minting tradition of prince-bishops striking gold on their own authority.

Fuß 2524 is among the scarcer ducats attributed to his reign.