1 Gröschel - Francis Louis

Francis Louis of Neuburg held Breslau as a prince-bishop while simultaneously serving as Bishop of Worms and later Elector of Trier — an accumulation of ecclesiastical offices that kept him perpetually absent from Silesia. The Gröschel was the workhorse small change of Silesian commerce, and this issue belongs to a period when the Habsburg reconsolidation of the region following the Thirty Years' War was still reshaping local monetary arrangements. Breslau retained its episcopal mint rights into the early eighteenth century despite sustained imperial pressure to centralize coinage authority in Vienna.