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1 Albus Gold pattern strike
| Issuer | Worms, City of |
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| Year | 1681 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Worms Mint |
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Worms had been devastated by the Thirty Years' War and was still rebuilding its civic infrastructure when this pattern was struck. A gold trial piece for a silver Albus denomination is an unusual investment of resources for a secondary Rhenish city in 1681, suggesting this was produced for presentation purposes — likely to demonstrate the city's mint capability or to court imperial approval — rather than as a genuine precursor to a circulating gold issue.
Louis XIV's forces would sack and largely destroy Worms just eight years later in 1689 during the Nine Years' War, making survivorship of any civic numismatic material from this precise period genuinely precarious.