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1 Thaler - Franz Ernst
| Issuer | Schlick, Counts of |
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| Year | 1651-1654 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicts the Virgin Mary (Madonna) with the Christ Child, accompanied by St. Anna above, the group positioned over a crowned coat of arms (shield). The legend FRANCIS:ERNEST:SCHLICK.COM:A:PASSAN encircles the design, with the inscription SAN / NA flanking the central group in the field. The date is divided and appears within the field. The overall style is consistent with mid-17th century German baroque engraving. |
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| Obverse lettering | FRANCIS:ERNEST:SCHLICK.COM:A:PASSAN SAN / NA |
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The Schlick family were among the Bohemian nobility most directly responsible for the thaler as a denomination — it was on their Joachimsthal estates that large-scale silver mining began in 1516, giving the coin its name. Franz Ernst, Count Schlick, ruled the family's holdings during the turbulent aftermath of the Thirty Years' War, when Bohemian noble houses were scrambling to reassert economic authority stripped by Habsburg centralization following the Battle of White Mountain in 1620. That the Schlicks retained minting rights into the 1650s at all is itself a residual anomaly of the pre-war order.