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3 Kreuzers - Leopold I Breslau
| Issuer | Breslau Mint (Silesia) |
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| Year | 1665-1705 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and draped bust of Emperor Leopold I facing right, wearing armor with lace cravat visible at the neck and flowing hair. The denomination numeral '3' appears in an ornamented cartouche at the lower left of the field. A beaded inner circle frames the effigy, with the Latin legend distributed around the periphery of the coin. |
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| Obverse lettering | LEOPOLDVS.DG.R.I.S..A.G.H.B.R. (3) |
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Leopold I's Silesian 3 kreuzer issues span four decades precisely because Silesia, absorbed into Habsburg rule after the Thirty Years' War, required a continuous local coinage to serve its dense commercial economy. The Breslau mint operated under imperial license but answered to regional Silesian estates, a jurisdictional tension that occasionally produced coins struck to slightly different standards than Vienna mandated. Over forty years of production, die marriages multiplied extensively — KM#471 encompasses a wide range of date variants, and collectors working the series treat individual year-die combinations as effectively distinct coins.