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1 Thaler - Silesian Evangelic Estates Breslau
| Issuer | Silesian Evangelical Estates |
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| Year | 1634 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Mint | Breslau Mint |
| Mintage | 1634 |
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Issued by the Silesian Evangelical Estates at Breslau during the catastrophic middle years of the Thirty Years' War, this thaler reflects a moment of acute political desperation. Silesia, nominally under Habsburg authority, retained enough autonomous institutional structure for its Protestant estates to strike coinage independently — a right that would not survive the war intact. By 1634, Imperial forces had already crushed the Bohemian revolt and were systematically dismantling Protestant privileges across the hereditary lands.
The Davenport reference EC II places this among the emergency and politically assertive issues of the period rather than routine estate coinage.