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1 Thaler - Johann Christian and Georg Rudolf
| Issuer | Duchy of Liegnitz-Brieg (Silesia) |
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| Year | 1609 |
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| Weight | 28.82 g |
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| Reverse description | A centrally positioned ornate oval shield bearing a quartered coat of arms, surmounted by three elaborately mantled and crested helmets. The four-digit date appears at the end of the peripheral Latin legend, while the mint signature CT is placed prominently at the top of the field. |
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| Reverse lettering | DVC. SIL. LIG. ET. BREG·1609 CT |
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Johann Christian and Georg Rudolf were the sons of Joachim Friedrich of Liegnitz-Brieg, and this joint-rule coinage reflects the peculiar dynastic arrangement that followed their father's death in 1602, when the two brothers governed the Silesian duchies of Liegnitz and Brieg in an uneasy co-regency. The Habsburgs had been tightening control over Silesia's semi-autonomous Protestant principalities throughout this period, and the brothers' ability to issue independent thalers was itself a quietly political act — one that would become increasingly difficult as the Thirty Years' War approached.
Georg Rudolf eventually ruled Liegnitz alone after 1621, but the joint issues from the pre-war decade, 1609 among them, are numerically scarcer than his later sole-reign output.