Rechenpfennig - Wilhelm of Rosenberg

Wilhelm von Rosenberg, the last male of the Rožmberk line and the most powerful Bohemian nobleman of the sixteenth century, commissioned reckoning tokens as working tools for estate administration — his lands stretched across southern Bohemia and required constant accounting. He died in 1592 without a male heir, extinguishing a dynasty that had dominated Bohemian politics since the thirteenth century. The Rosenberg dominion passed to his brother Petr Vok, who eventually sold the entire estate to Rudolf II in 1611.