Nuremberg's goldgulden production in the early fifteenth century operated under a licensing framework tied to the imperial mints, with the city periodically negotiating — and occasionally flouting — its striking privileges with the Habsburgs and their predecessors. The 1429 issue falls during a period of intense commercial activity along the north-south trading routes the city dominated, when Nuremberg merchants demanded reliable gold coinage that Rhenish gulden from ecclesiastical mints could not always supply in sufficient quantity.
Fr#1802 is a recognized rarity in Friedberg's corpus of German gold, with surviving examples thin on the ground in any condition.
Nuremberg's goldgulden production in the early fifteenth century operated under a licensing framework tied to the imperial mints, with the city periodically negotiating — and occasionally flouting — its striking privileges with the Habsburgs and their predecessors. The 1429 issue falls during a period of intense commercial activity along the north-south trading routes the city dominated, when Nuremberg merchants demanded reliable gold coinage that Rhenish gulden from ecclesiastical mints could not always supply in sufficient quantity.
Fr#1802 is a recognized rarity in Friedberg's corpus of German gold, with surviving examples thin on the ground in any condition.