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1 Groschen - John V Thurzo
| Issuer | Bishopric of Breslau (Silesia) |
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| Year | 1506 |
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| Value | 1 Groschen (1⁄24) |
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| Reverse description | Within a double inner circle, the head of St. John the Baptist is depicted in slight three-quarter turn to left, rendered in the late Gothic style typical of early sixteenth-century Silesian coinage. Beneath the head, a shield bearing the arms of Breslau (Wrocław) divides the surrounding Latin legend, which commences at approximately the 11 o'clock position. The inscription implores the saint's intercession. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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John V Thurzo held the bishopric of Breslau from 1506 to 1520, appointed through the considerable influence of the Fugger banking dynasty — his family and the Fuggers were deeply intertwined through the Thurzó-Fugger copper trading monopoly that dominated Central European metal commerce at the time. That a bishop issued groschen at all reflects the substantial secular authority ecclesiastical princes retained in Silesia under Jagiellonian rule.
Kopicki 6727 is among the scarcer documented types from this see.