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1 Ducat - Wilhelm of Rosenberg
| Issuer | Rosenberg dominion |
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| Year | 1584 |
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| Weight | 3.50 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Standing full-length figure of a knight or saint in armour, facing slightly left, holding a long staff or lance in the right hand and resting the left hand at his side; the figure is rendered in high relief in the Renaissance hammered tradition. A circular Latin legend surrounds the figure between beaded borders, referencing the gold coinage of Reichstein (Rychštejn). The mintmaster's initials IW appear in the lower field beneath the figure. |
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Wilhelm of Rosenberg — the last male of his line — issued this ducat in 1584, just six years before the family's extinction with his death in 1592. As the supreme burgrave of Bohemia and a magnate of extraordinary wealth, Wilhelm held the right to mint coinage, a privilege the Rosenbergs had exercised carefully. The family's vast Bohemian estates and silver revenues gave the issue genuine economic backing, not mere vanity.
KH#7 is among the rarer Rosenberg minting events by surviving population.