1 Goldgulden

Frankfurt's goldgulden coinage of this period was produced under the city's own mint authority, a privilege jealously maintained against repeated Habsburg pressure to consolidate imperial coinage. The 1493 date falls squarely within the reign of Maximilian I, who was actively reorganizing imperial monetary policy — the Reichsmünzordnung would follow within just a few years, and Frankfurt's independent issues were already politically fraught by the time this piece was struck.

The Friedberg 940 attribution places this firmly in a well-documented but genuinely scarce series. Frankfurt goldgulden of the late 15th century rarely appear in quantity; the city's commercial prominence meant these coins circulated hard across the Rhine trade networks.