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1 Thaler - Sebastian of Rostock
| Issuer | Bishopric of Breslau (Silesia) |
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| Year | 1667 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Full-length figure of Saint John the Evangelist standing facing, nimbed, draped in flowing robes, holding an open book in his left hand upon which rests the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei) with a cross-staff, his right hand raised in a gesture of blessing. The date 1667 appears in the lower field flanking the saint's feet. The circular Latin legend MVNVS CAESAR MAXIMILIANI I encircles the design within a beaded border, referencing the imperial gift of Maximilian I. |
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Sebastian von Rostock served as Prince-Bishop of Breslau from 1664 until his death in 1671, a tenure consumed almost entirely by the grinding aftermath of the Thirty Years' War and the diocese's fraught relationship with the Habsburg court over the pace of re-Catholicization in Silesia. The Bishopric retained the right to strike thalers as a sovereign ecclesiastical territory under the Empire, and Sebastian exercised that right sparingly — making individual dated issues from his episcopate genuinely scarce rather than artificially so.
Davenport EC II#5120 is the standard reference, with Kopicki confirming the type.