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1 Goldgulden
| Issuer | Lübeck, Free Hanseatic city of |
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| Year | 1500 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Lübeck's goldgulden production in the late fifteenth century reflects the city's precarious position within the Hanseatic League's monetary politics. The League's commercial dominance depended on reliable gold coinage, and Lübeck — as the League's nominal capital — maintained its mint authority jealously, striking to Rhenish goldgulden standards to ensure acceptance across northern trading networks. By 1500 that dominance was already eroding, squeezed between the rising power of the territorial princes and the slow decline of Hanseatic trading privileges in England and Scandinavia.
Behr 67 is among the scarcer die marriages for this type.