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1 Thaler - Johann Christian and Johann Seyfried Krummau
| Issuer | House of Eggenberg |
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| Year | 1658 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1625-1688) |
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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 (now Český Krumlov) as a Bohemian princely fief, and this thaler was struck jointly in the names of Johann Christian and Johann Seyfried — two brothers ruling their territories in co-lordship, a dynastic arrangement increasingly rare by the mid-seventeenth century. The timing falls just a decade after the Peace of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years' War, which had devastated Bohemian noble families aligned with the Habsburgs far less than those who opposed them; the Eggenbergs had backed the right side and were richly rewarded with lands and titles.
The family line died out in 1717, making all Eggenberg coinage terminal — no continuation issues, no successor mint.