John V Thurzo held the bishopric of Breslau from 1506 to 1520, appointed through the considerable influence of the Fugger banking dynasty — his family and the Fuggers were deeply intertwined through the Thurzó-Fugger copper trading monopoly that dominated Central European metal commerce at the time. That a bishop issued groschen at all reflects the substantial secular authority ecclesiastical princes retained in Silesia under Jagiellonian rule.
Kopicki 6727 is among the scarcer documented types from this see.
John V Thurzo held the bishopric of Breslau from 1506 to 1520, appointed through the considerable influence of the Fugger banking dynasty — his family and the Fuggers were deeply intertwined through the Thurzó-Fugger copper trading monopoly that dominated Central European metal commerce at the time. That a bishop issued groschen at all reflects the substantial secular authority ecclesiastical princes retained in Silesia under Jagiellonian rule.
Kopicki 6727 is among the scarcer documented types from this see.