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1 Thaler Pattern
| Issuer | Breslau, City of |
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| Year | 1670 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse description | Central quartered coat of arms featuring four heraldic quadrants — a lion passant, an eagle displayed, a crowned lion rampant, and a lion passant — surrounding a small shield charged with the letter W, all enclosed within an elaborate baroque cartouche of foliate and scroll ornament with a grotesque mask at the base. The entire composition is set within a beaded inner circle. The encircling legend reads MONETA NOVA SEN POP Q VRATISLAVIENSIS with the date 1670 incorporated at the top of the legend. |
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| Reverse description | Draped and armored laureate bust of Emperor Leopold I facing right, with long flowing hair, the portrait rendered in the high baroque style. The emperor wears plate armor with decorative embossing and a laurel wreath crown. The bust is set within a plain field, and the encircling legend bearing the imperial titles of Leopold I runs around the periphery, interrupted at the base by the lower truncation of the bust. |
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Breslau occupied an unusual position in 1670 — a Silesian city nominally under Habsburg authority yet fiercely protective of its municipal rights and Lutheran traditions, which the Habsburgs had spent decades trying to suppress following the Thirty Years' War. Pattern issues from the city in this period often reflect that tension: civic authorities asserting identity through coinage at moments when their autonomy was under pressure. That this piece never entered circulation as a struck currency type makes it a deliberate statement as much as a metallurgical exercise.
Friedensburg remains the authoritative reference for Silesian coinage, and the Koppmann concordance places this among a small cluster of civic pattern thaler-weight pieces from the 1660s–70s Breslau municipal series.