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1 Thaler - Leopold I Breslau
| Issuer | Habsburg Monarchy (Imperial Mint of Breslau) |
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| Year | 1689-1692 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | Imperial double-headed eagle displayed with wings spread, each head crowned, bearing on its breast a large quartered escutcheon with the complex Habsburg dynastic arms including the arms of Austria, Burgundy, Castile, León, and Silesia among others, surmounted by an imperial crown. The mintmaster's initials MMW appear in a cartouche at the base of the eagle beneath its tail feathers. The date 1692 is incorporated into the circumferential Latin legend, which reads ARCHIDVX AVSTRIAE DVX BVRG & SILESIAE, denoting Leopold's titles as Archduke of Austria and Duke of Burgundy and Silesia. A beaded inner border frames the design. |
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| Reverse lettering | ARCHIDVX AVSTRIAE DVX BVRG & SILESIAE 1692 MMW |
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Breslau's imperial mint operated under persistent logistical strain during these years, as the Nine Years' War drained Habsburg silver supplies westward toward more active fronts. Silesia's mining output from the Sudeten foothills partially offset this, but Breslau thalers of the early 1690s show measurable variation in planchet preparation across the run — a known characteristic of the KM#71 type rather than evidence of individual wear.
Leopold I had formally reconfirmed Breslau's minting privileges in the 1670s, a political concession to Silesian civic interests that kept the facility productive well past the point when many provincial Habsburg mints had been consolidated or shuttered.