10 Ducats - Heinrich

The Schlick family controlled the silver mines at Joachimsthal in Bohemia — the same mines whose output gave the world the Joachimsthaler, ancestor of the dollar. By 1630, the Thirty Years' War had been grinding through Bohemia for twelve years, and the Schlick counts were navigating the aftermath of the Battle of White Mountain, which had devastated the Protestant Bohemian nobility. Multiple Schlick family members had been executed or exiled following that defeat in 1620.

Large gold multiples of this kind were rarely struck for circulation. Fr#114 is known in very few examples across major collections.