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1 Goldgulden
| Issuer | Strasbourg, City of |
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| Year | 1550-1600 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse lettering | VRBEM.CHRISTE TVAM.SERVA |
| Reverse description | An imperial orb, surmounted by a cross and bearing a horizontal bar dividing the lower half, is centrally positioned within an ornate sexfoil frame composed of six elaborately decorated foliate lobes. The intervening spaces between the lobes are filled with floral and vegetal ornament in the field. The Latin legend encircles the entire design along the outer periphery, separated by pellet stops. |
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Strasbourg's goldgulden issues of this period were struck under the city's status as a Free Imperial City — answerable to the Emperor in theory, but effectively autonomous in monetary policy. The Alsatian mint maintained one of the highest fineness standards in the Rhine corridor during the second half of the sixteenth century, a fact that made Strasbourg gold actively preferred in cross-border mercantile transactions over issues from smaller territorial mints diluting their flans to cover fiscal shortfalls.
Fiescherbach's die analysis places Fr#234 among a small cluster of surviving Strasbourg gold issues showing consistent planchet weight adherence, suggesting disciplined assay oversight even as the city navigated the religious tensions of the Schmalkaldic aftermath.