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1 Dicken - Bernhard III, Ernest I, Philip I Under the name of Christopher I
| Issuer | Margraviate of Baden |
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| Year | 1519 |
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| Currency | Guldiner (1112-1535) |
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| Obverse description | Mature draped bust of Margrave Christopher I facing left, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and fur-trimmed garment with the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece visible at the neck. The effigy is rendered in a bold late-Gothic style within a beaded inner circle. The circumferential Latin legend reads CRISTOF D G MARCHIO IN BADEN, identifying the ruler by name and title. |
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| Reverse lettering | MOИETA ИOVA ARGEИTV BADEИSIS 1519 |
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This piece emerges from one of the more convoluted episodes in Baden's dynastic history. Following the death of Christoph I in 1527 — still eight years away at the time of this striking — the margraviate had already been divided between competing lines, and coinage was frequently issued jointly in the names of multiple rulers as a deliberate assertion of shared sovereignty over contested territories. The 1519 date places this squarely in the period before the Baden-Baden and Baden-Durlach partition hardened into permanent division.
Issuing under the name of a living co-regent, Christoph I, while three others are named beneath him reflects the rigid hierarchy of the joint regency rather than any ambiguity about who held primary authority.