3 Kreuzers - Heinrich

The Schlick family had been minting silver in Bohemia since the early sixteenth century — their operations at Joachimsthal gave the world the Joachimsthaler, the coin whose name compressed into "thaler" and eventually "dollar." By 1628, however, the family's position was precarious. The Battle of White Mountain in 1620 had broken the Bohemian Protestant nobility, and Habsburg recatholicization was stripping many families of their minting privileges. This issue falls within Heinrich Schlick's last years of authorized production before the family's numismatic autonomy was effectively extinguished.