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| Emittent | Bishopric of Breslau (Silesia) |
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| Jahr | 1796 |
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| Gewicht | 3.43 g |
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| Aversschrift | Latin |
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| Reversbeschreibung | Elaborate quartered coat of arms of the Bishopric of Breslau, crowned and supported by two rampant heraldic lions holding staffs, set within an ornate cartouche. The shield displays multiple quarterings incorporating the arms of Breslau, Neisse, and Grottkau. The encircling Latin legend reads EPISCOP WRATISL PRINC NISS ET DUX GROTTKOW with the date 1796, divided by a small star, and the whole is framed by a beaded border consistent with the obverse. |
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Joseph Christian Franz von Hohenlohe-Bartenstein served as Prince-Bishop of Breslau from 1795 until his death in 1817, making this 1796 ducat one of the earliest struck under his authority. By this point Breslau's ecclesiastical mint was operating under Prussian sufferance — Frederick the Great had seized Silesia from Austria in 1742, and the Bishopric's coinage rights survived the conquest largely intact but increasingly as ceremonial prerogative rather than practical monetary policy.
The ducat's 1796 date places it in the same year as Napoleon's Italian campaign, when gold was being hoarded across Central Europe.