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1 Goldgulden
| Issuer | Frankfurt, Free imperial city of |
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| Year | 1611 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1611 |
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Frankfurt's goldgulden of this period were struck under the city's jealously guarded mint privilege, renewed repeatedly through negotiations with the imperial court. By 1611, the Rhenish goldgulden standard was centuries old and increasingly awkward alongside the rising dominance of the thaler in large-value transactions — yet Frankfurt, as the site of imperial elections and a major commercial fair city, had every commercial reason to keep gold coinage flowing. The Römer fairs alone generated enough cross-border traffic to justify maintaining a high-fineness gold issue that foreign merchants would accept without dispute.