5 Ducats - Charles II

Münsterberg-Oels was a small Silesian duchy that passed through the Podiebrad line before coming under the Piast-connected Württemberg branch in the late sixteenth century. Charles II ruled from 1587 until his death in 1617, and these multi-ducat strikings from the final years of his reign were almost certainly presentation pieces — heavyweight gold issues at this scale rarely entered commerce in minor German principalities. The Thirty Years' War broke out just two years after this issue closed, and the duchy's subsequent absorption into Habsburg-controlled Silesia makes survivorship precarious.