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1 Thaler - Johann Christian and Johann Seyfried Krummau
| Issuer | House of Eggenberg |
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| Year | 1654 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#41, Dav EC II#3393 |
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| Obverse lettering | IOAN CHRIST ET IOAN SEYF S R IMP PR C GRADIS (Translation: Johann Christian and Johann Seyfried, Princes of the Holy Roman Empire, counts of Gradisca) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The House of Eggenberg held Krummau (Český Krumlov) as a hereditary fief under the Habsburgs, and the joint coinage of Johann Christian and Johann Seyfried reflects the brief period of co-rule following the death of their father Johann Anton I in 1649. The right to strike thalers was a jealously guarded privilege, and Eggenberg's retained it largely through the family's close entanglement with the imperial court — Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg had been among Ferdinand II's most powerful ministers during the Thirty Years' War.
Johann Christian would outlive his brother by decades, making joint-issue pieces like this 1654 thaler a narrow window in the dynastic succession.