1/2 Reichsguldiner

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.