1 Ducat - Jakob von Salza

Jakob von Salza became Bishop of Breslau in 1520 and navigated one of the most turbulent decades in Silesian ecclesiastical history — Luther's theses were already circulating, and Breslau itself would become a Protestant city within years of this coin's striking. That a Catholic bishop was still issuing gold ducats in 1525 speaks to the pace at which institutional authority lagged behind popular religious conversion on the ground.

Fr#472 is a genuinely rare type. Silesian episcopal gold from the early Reformation period survives in small numbers, partly because ecclesiastical minting rights in the region were repeatedly contested and production runs were short.