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1 Goldgulden

Issuer Hamelin, City of
Year 1668
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Obverse script Latin
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Hamelin's civic coinage authority was sharply curtailed after the Thirty Years' War, making independent gold issues from the city increasingly rare in the latter half of the seventeenth century. This gulden, struck just over two decades after the Peace of Westphalia, comes from a period when smaller German imperial cities were fighting to retain minting privileges against growing pressure from territorial princes. Few did so successfully for long.

Kalv/Schr#243 is among the final documented gold issues attributed to the city before its minting rights effectively lapsed.

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