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1 Goldgulden
| Issuer | Cologne, City of |
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| Year | 1624-1634 |
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| Value | 1 Goldgulden (3.25) |
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| Obverse description | Five heraldic shields of arms arranged within a quatrefoil frame: at top, the shield of the Archbishop of Cologne bearing a wheel; at center, the arms of the City of Cologne displaying three crowns above ermine drops; flanking left and right, two shields each bearing a plain cross; and at bottom, a shield charged with a divided field. The date appears in the left field alongside the quatrefoil, and the legend encircles the design in Latin characters. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Cologne's civic goldgulden of this decade were struck against a backdrop of acute monetary chaos. The Kipper und Wipperzeit — the debasing crisis of 1619–1623 — had so thoroughly destroyed confidence in base-metal coinage across the Holy Roman Empire that cities like Cologne leaned hard on gold issues to maintain commercial credibility. The Rhine trade depended on it.
Cologne retained its status as a Free Imperial City through this period, giving the city council direct authority over its mint independent of the Archbishop — a jurisdictional distinction that mattered enormously when the Thirty Years' War was actively disrupting minting rights across the Rhineland.