5 Ducats - Albrecht von Wallenstein

Wallenstein struck these ducats from his personal duchy — a territory the Emperor Ferdinand II had essentially invented for him as payment for raising and financing an imperial army during the Thirty Years' War. Friedland was a reward, not an inheritance. By 1628, Wallenstein commanded forces numbering in the tens of thousands, funded largely from his own estates and the systematic extraction of occupied territories.

He was assassinated in 1634 on Ferdinand's orders, and Friedland ceased to exist as a political entity shortly after. The brief coinage window — roughly 1623 to 1634 — keeps surviving pieces scarce across all denominations.