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1 Ducat - Petr Vok of Rosenberg
| Issuer | Rosenberg dominion |
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| Year | 1593-1594 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Crowned shield of the Rosenberg arms, bearing a five-petalled rose in the lower half, supported on the left and right by two bears rampant facing inward. The heraldic composition is centrally placed within the field. The circumferential legend reads PETRVS·WOK··GV BE··DOM·ROSEN, distributed around the shield in Latin characters. The overall style is typical of late Renaissance German-Bohemian heraldic coinage. |
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| Obverse lettering | PETRVS·WOK· ·GV BE· ·DOM·ROSEN |
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Petr Vok of Rosenberg, the last of his line, issued these ducats during a period of acute financial strain — his inheritance of the family estates in 1592 came bundled with catastrophic debts accumulated by his brother Vilém. The Rosenberg dominion, despite controlling vast Bohemian landholdings centered on Český Krumlov and Třeboň, was effectively insolvent. Private noble coinage of this kind required imperial permission, and the Habsburgs granted it selectively; that Petr Vok obtained the right speaks to the family's residual political weight even in decline.
He sold the entire dominion to Rudolf II in 1611, dying without heirs the following year. The Rosenberg line died with him.