1 Goldgulden

Lübeck's gold coinage of the early seventeenth century was issued under constant pressure from the Thirty Years' War, which had broken out just six years before this piece was struck. The city's status as a Free Imperial City gave it the right to mint gold, a privilege jealously defended against both the Emperor and neighboring territorial princes.

Fr#1475 is among the scarcer Lübeck gulden attributions in Friedberg, with surviving examples appearing infrequently at auction outside the major German cabinets.