Catalog
| Issuer | Duchy of Münsterberg-Oels (Silesia) |
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| Year | 1501-1511 |
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| Weight | 2.5 g |
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| Reverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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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.