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1 Thaler - George Frederick I
| Issuer | Jägerndorf, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1593-1599 |
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| Reference(s) | MB#51, Dav GT I#9332, Friedensburg#3297 |
| Obverse description | Armored half-length bust of George Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg and Duke of Jägerndorf, facing right, wearing elaborately decorated plate armor with a ruff collar and a sash across the chest. The ruler's beard and curled hair are rendered with fine detail characteristic of late Renaissance hammered coinage. A circular beaded border frames the design, with the Latin legend distributed around the periphery reading MO NO ARG GEOR F MAR BRAN Z SL DVC, abbreviating his titles as Duke of Jägerndorf and Margrave of Brandenburg. |
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| Reverse description | Central ornate quartered shield displaying the arms of the Hohenzollern-Brandenburg territories, arranged around a scepter cross with decorative Renaissance scrollwork. The four quarters contain distinct heraldic charges including an eagle, a griffin, a lion, and additional devices associated with the Silesian and Brandenburg territories, with a small imperial eagle at the center of the cross. The date appears prominently in the upper field, divided by the central ornament. The surrounding Latin legend, reading SI DEVS PRO NOBIS QVIS CONTRA NOS with the year 1593, is a biblical motto from Romans 8:31 and runs within a beaded border. |
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George Frederick of Brandenburg-Ansbach administered Jägerndorf as a Hohenzollern possession from 1543 until his death in 1603, one of several Silesian duchies absorbed into the sprawling Brandenburg inheritance through dynastic maneuvering rather than conquest. His thalers from this period were struck at the Jägerndorf mint during a stretch of relative political stability before the Thirty Years' War dismembered the Silesian territorial order entirely — the duchy itself was confiscated by the Habsburgs in 1621 following the Protestant defeat at White Mountain.
Friedensburg 3297 cross-references with the Davenport listing, confirming consistent die use across the documented emission years.