10 Ducats - Georg III, Ludwig IV and Christian Brieg

The three dukes named on this piece — Georg III, Ludwig IV, and Christian — ruled Liegnitz-Brieg jointly under the fractured inheritance arrangements that plagued Silesian dynastic politics throughout the seventeenth century. By 1658, the Habsburgs were tightening their grip on Silesian ducal rights following Westphalia, and the Piast line governing Liegnitz-Brieg was running out of male heirs. Multi-duke issues of this kind functioned partly as dynastic statements, asserting collective legitimacy at a moment when that legitimacy was under quiet imperial pressure.

Christian, the youngest of the three, would outlive his brothers and see the line extinguished entirely in 1675, at which point Liegnitz-Brieg reverted to direct Habsburg control.