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3 Kreuzers - Ferdinand II Breslau, flat collar
| Issuer | Breslau Mint (Wrocław) |
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| Year | 1625-1626 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse description | Laureate bust of Emperor Ferdinand II facing right, wearing a flat collar, rendered in the imperial portrait style typical of early seventeenth-century Silesian coinage. The numeral '3', denoting the denomination, appears within a small circle positioned below the bust and divides the encircling Latin legend. The effigy is modeled with characteristic period detail, presenting the emperor in regal attire befitting his titles as Holy Roman Emperor, King of Germany, Hungary, and Bohemia. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Ferdinand II's Silesian kipper-era small silver represents one of the more administratively tangled coinages of the Thirty Years' War. Breslau operated under the Habsburgs as a reluctant mint, with Ferdinand repeatedly pressuring Silesian estates to accept degraded coinage standards that local merchants resisted well into the 1620s. The flat collar distinction on this type separates it from related collar-struck issues and reflects the transitional minting equipment in use at Breslau during precisely these two years.