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1 Ducat - Wilhelm of Rosenberg
| Issuer | Rosenberg dominion |
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| Year | 1582 |
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| Value | 1 Ducat (2) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central device depicts Saint Christopher wading through water, carrying the infant Jesus on his left arm and grasping a tall staff in his right hand, rendered in the detailed figural style characteristic of Bohemian Renaissance goldsmithing. The saint is shown in three-quarter or full figure against a plain field. The surrounding Latin legend MONE★NOVA★ – AV – RE:REICHSTEIN· identifies this as a new gold coin struck for Reichstein, referencing the mint or lordship authority under Wilhelm of Rosenberg. |
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Wilhelm von Rozmberk was the last male of his line to hold meaningful political authority, and by 1582 was operating one of the most culturally sophisticated courts in Bohemia — hosting alchemists, financing construction, and maintaining a dominion that functioned with near-princely independence despite nominal Habsburg suzerainty. Private gold coinage of this type was an assertion of that independence, issued by a magnate family whose wealth derived largely from Bohemian silver and fish-pond revenues. The Rozmberk line died out entirely in 1611 with the death of Petr Vok, making every issue under the family's name a terminal artifact of Bohemian aristocratic autonomy before Habsburg consolidation tightened its grip on the region.