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5 Ducats - Franz Ernst
| Issuer | Schlick, Counts of |
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| Year | 1652 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1519-1754) |
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| Obverse description | Central shield of the Schlick arms, quartered with heraldic devices including a lion and eagle, surmounted by a crowned helmet. Flanking the shield on either side are three figures in high relief: at center a veiled female saint (Saint Anne) holding the Christ Child, flanked left and right by standing holy figures with haloes, rendered in a bold baroque style. The legend surrounding the design reads in Latin and references Count Franz Ernst of Schlick. The initials SAN and NA appear in the field to either side of the shield. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Schlick family's fortunes were inseparable from silver — it was their mines at Joachimsthal in Bohemia that produced the Joachimsthaler in the early sixteenth century, the coin whose name eventually contracted into "thaler" and, much later, "dollar." By 1652, however, the family had lost direct control of those mines long before, their Bohemian properties stripped following the Battle of White Mountain in 1620, when Count Heinrich Schlick was executed and the family's political standing gutted by Habsburg reprisals against the Protestant nobility.
This gold multiple, struck under Franz Ernst, represents an assertion of dynastic prestige at a moment when the family was rebuilding from those confiscations.