1 Florin - Mihály Weiss, City Judge

Kronstadt (today Brașov, Romania) operated under a degree of municipal autonomy within the Habsburg-controlled Transylvanian region that allowed it to strike its own gold coinage well into the seventeenth century — a privilege jealously maintained by the Saxon burghers who dominated civic administration. Mihály Weiss, whose name this florin bears as city judge, was one of the most consequential figures in Kronstadt's early modern history, later becoming mayor and leading an ultimately fatal alliance with Gabriel Báthory's opponents. He was executed in 1612, the very year of this issue.