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1 Goldgulden - Charles I Reichenstein

Issuer Duchy of Münsterberg-Oels (Silesia)
Year 1522
Type Standard circulation coin
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Obverse lettering KAROLVS D G DVX MVNSTERB
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Mintage 1522 NB - 15ZZ
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Charles I of Münsterberg-Oels was a Piast duke ruling a fragmented Silesian territory that had been subdivided repeatedly through inheritance across the fifteenth century. By 1522, the duchy was navigating the early shockwaves of Lutheran reform while remaining nominally within the Bohemian crown's orbit under Habsburg authority. Goldgulden production at this scale by minor Silesian lords was partly an assertion of minting rights — rights the Habsburgs were already beginning to curtail across the region.

Müseler 57.1 is among the rarer citations in that series. Very few examples are documented in major collections.

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