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1 Thaler - George Frederick I

Issuer Duchy of Jägerndorf (Silesia)
Year 1587
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Value 1 Thaler
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Reverse lettering SI.DEVS.PRONOB:QVIS.CONTRA.NOS. 1587
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Mintage 1587 (b)
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George Frederick I of Brandenburg-Ansbach acquired Jägerndorf in 1543 through the Hohenzollern inheritance network, making it one of the few Silesian duchies under Protestant Hohenzollern control during the Reformation's peak tensions. His thalers from the 1580s were struck while he was simultaneously administering Ansbach and Bayreuth — an absentee ruler whose Silesian mint output was modest by design, which accounts for the comparative scarcity of late-reign Jägerndorf silver.

George Frederick died in 1603 without legitimate heirs, triggering a succession dispute that eventually drew Habsburg intervention and led to the duchy's absorption into the imperial orbit — a process completed under his successor Johann Georg.