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24 Kreuzer - Frederick Kuttenberg
| Issuer | Kingdom of Bohemia |
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| Year | 1620 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1520-1754) |
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| Obverse lettering | FRIDERICVS D G BO (24) HE REX CO PA RH |
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| Edge | Plain |
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1620 is the year Bohemia collapsed. The Battle of White Mountain in November ended the Bohemian Revolt and with it the brief reign of Frederick V, the "Winter King," whose court fled Prague after a single year on the throne. This coin was struck during that chaotic final year, when the Bohemian mint at Kutná Hora was still producing currency for a king who would be deposed before the year was out.
Kutná Hora had been Bohemia's primary silver-mining center since the 13th century, which made it a strategically critical mint. Frederick's issues from this facility are relatively scarce survivors of a government that lasted less than fourteen months.