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Groschen - Albert I and Charles I

Issuer Duchy of Münsterberg-Oels (Silesia)
Year 1501-1511
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Value 1 Groschen
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Reverse description A single-headed eagle displayed in the Gothic style occupies the central field, wings spread, with a shield bearing a horizontal bar (fess) or similar heraldic charge superimposed on its breast. The eagle is rendered with detailed feathering and talons typical of late Gothic die workmanship. A circular legend in uncial Latin characters surrounds the eagle, identifying this as a new coin of Reichenstein (Rychleby). The flan is irregularly shaped, consistent with hammered production techniques of the early sixteenth century.
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Münsterberg-Oels passed through a tangle of Piast inheritance disputes before landing jointly under Albert I and Charles I, whose co-rule reflected the Silesian habit of partible succession that fractured ducal authority across dozens of competing lines. Joint coinages of this kind were a political necessity as much as a fiscal one — the shared type asserted parity between brothers who might otherwise have had reason to contest it.

The decade-long span of this issue suggests steady if modest output from a minor mint operating well within the Bohemian Crown's monetary orbit.

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