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1/2 Reichsguldiner
| Issuer | Nuremberg, Free imperial city of |
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| Year | 1577-1584 |
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| Value | 1/2 Guldiner = 30 Kreuzer |
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| Reverse description | A large double-headed imperial eagle occupies the central field, displayed with wings spread and each head crowned, bearing on its breast an escutcheon with the imperial orb. The eagle is rendered in the bold, stylized manner characteristic of late sixteenth-century Holy Roman Empire coinage. The surrounding circular legend reads RVDOLPH. II. ROM. IMP. AVG. P. F. DECRETO., attributing the coin's issue to the authority and decree of Emperor Rudolf II. The legend is engraved in clear Roman capitals around the full circumference of the coin. A beaded or toothed border frames the design. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Nuremberg's late sixteenth-century silver coinage occupied an awkward regulatory position: the city struck on its own authority as a free imperial city while nominally bound by the imperial coin ordinances of 1559 and 1566, which it interpreted with considerable latitude. The half Reichsguldiner denomination itself was a product of the Augsburg monetary system's attempt to reconcile the gulden-based accounting tradition with the thaler-weight silver flooding in from the Joachimsthal and Erzgebirge mines.
The seven-year emission window across 1577–1584 suggests steady municipal demand rather than a single crisis issue.