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3 Kreuzers - Johann Christian and Georg Rudolf

Issuer Duchy of Liegnitz-Brieg
Year 1605-1612
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Value 3 Kreuzers (1/20)
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Obverse lettering + D. G. IOAN. CHR. - ET. GEOR. RVD. FR.
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Reverse lettering DVC. SIL. LEG. ET. BREG.
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Liegnitz-Brieg was a Silesian duchy under Piast rule — one of the last surviving branches of that dynasty — and the joint coinage of Johann Christian and Georg Rudolf reflects the duchy's inheritance arrangement, which kept the territory formally undivided between two brothers even as administrative realities were messier. The brothers issued coins together from 1602 until Georg Rudolf effectively took sole control of the Wohlau line, leaving Johann Christian at Brieg.

The Thirty Years' War would engulf Silesia within a decade of this issue's final year, permanently altering the region's monetary and political landscape. These small silver pieces circulated in an economy still years away from that rupture.

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