1 Goldgulden

Stralsund's 1629 Goldgulden was struck at a moment of acute military pressure. The city was under siege by Wallenstein's Imperial forces that very year, holding out with Swedish and Danish support in what became one of the defining early confrontations of the Thirty Years' War. Stralsund famously refused to surrender despite Wallenstein's reported boast that he would take the city "though it were chained to heaven."

The Fr#3366 reference places this among the Friedrich series of German gold, a comparatively thin category for Stralsund. Municipal gold issues from besieged cities in this period were often struck to pay troops or secure alliances rather than for general commerce.