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1 Guldenthaler/ 60 Kreuzers - George Frederick I
| Issuer | Duchy of Jägerndorf (Silesia) |
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| Year | 1564 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | Crowned double-headed imperial eagle displayed in the central field, with an orb on its breast bearing the denomination numeral. A Latin legend encircles the design within a beaded inner circle, commencing at 12 o'clock and divided at the base by a small escutcheon bearing the arms of Silesia. The date 1564 appears at the end of the legend, with the value 60 (Kreuzers) inscribed within the orb on the eagle's breast. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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George Frederick I of Brandenburg-Ansbach acquired Jägerndorf in 1543 through the Hohenzollern inheritance of the last Piast duke, and this guldenthaler belongs to the brief window during which he actively exploited the duchy's minting rights before Imperial pressure increasingly curtailed the coinage privileges of smaller Silesian lordships. The 60-kreuzer valuation places it within the transitional accounting conventions of the mid-sixteenth century, when the gulden-kreuzer relationship was being standardized across the Habsburg sphere but enforcement remained uneven enough that local lords could still issue on their own terms.
Davenport's SG#61 is among the scarcer Jägerndorf thalers from this reign.