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1 Ducat - Sigismund Ludwig
| Issuer | Dietrichstein, Counts of |
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| Year | 1640-1651 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Reverse description | Baroque cartouche-shaped heraldic shield bearing the Dietrichstein arms, surmounted by a royal crown flanked by decorative foliate elements, all contained within a beaded inner circle. The elaborate shield is rendered in high-relief baroque style typical of mid-17th century German and Austrian coinage. The surrounding legend, commencing at 12 o'clock, reads LIBER BARO IN HOLLENBVRG with the date 1640 incorporated into the legend field. |
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| Reverse lettering | LIBER BARO IN HOLLENBVRG date |
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The Dietrichstein family held their Moravian lordship as a mediate territory within the Habsburg system, which granted them the right to strike coinage — a privilege jealously guarded and increasingly curtailed by Vienna throughout the mid-seventeenth century. Sigismund Ludwig, Count of Dietrichstein, exercised this right during a period when the Thirty Years' War and its immediate aftermath had fractured central European monetary order badly enough that local noble coinages still found practical circulation.
KM#8 ducats of this type are scarce survivors from a mint operating under political pressure and without the output volume of sovereign houses.