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3 Kreuzers - Adam Wenceslaus Teschen
| Issuer | Teschen, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1609-1611 |
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| Value | 3 Kreuzer (1/20) |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Duke Adam Wenceslaus of Teschen facing right, depicted with flowing hair and armored shoulders, occupying the upper right portion of the field. A crowned ornamental shield bearing the Teschen arms is positioned to the lower left of the bust. The numeral 3, denoting the denomination in Kreuzer, appears in a circular cartouche at the bottom center of the field. The abbreviated Latin legend runs around the periphery, divided by small ornamental stops. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Adam Wenceslaus ruled Teschen as a Protestant duke before his dramatic reconversion to Catholicism in 1610 — a politically calculated move that secured Habsburg favor and kept his duchy from the fate of more resistant Silesian principalities. These small silver issues straddle that conversion, placing the 1609–1611 date range across one of the more consequential personal and political pivots in the duchy's history.
Teschen's coinage output was modest by any measure, and surviving KM#7 pieces in attributable condition are genuinely scarce rather than merely reported as such.