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1 Thaler - Charles II of Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn
| Issuer | Bishopric of Olomouc (Kingdom of Bohemia) |
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| Year | 1676 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Large ornate baroque shield bearing a composite coat of arms, incorporating the arms of the Bishopric of Olomouc and those of the Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn family, quartered and surmounted by an ecclesiastical mitre and a princely crown. Crossed behind the shield are a sword and a crozier, symbols of the bishop's dual secular and spiritual authority. The small date 1676 is divided by the lower portion of the shield. A continuous Latin legend surrounds the design, commencing at 12 o'clock. |
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Charles II of Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn served as Prince-Bishop of Olomouc from 1664 until his death in 1695, a tenure defined largely by the slow reconstruction of Moravia after the devastation of the Thirty Years' War and the subsequent Swedish occupation, which had left the diocese's finances and physical infrastructure severely damaged. The 1676 date places this thaler roughly a generation into that rebuilding effort, when the Olomouc mint was producing thalers intermittently rather than as a continuous series — gaps in the sequence reflect both economic constraint and fluctuating silver supply into the Moravian interior.