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1 Goldgulden - Anonymous
| Issuer | Mainz, Archbishopric of |
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| Year | 1380 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Enthroned archbishop facing, vested in pontifical robes and wearing a mitra (mitre), rendered in Gothic style within an architectural canopy setting. The figure raises the right hand in benediction and holds a crozier in the left. The Nassau dynastic shield of arms is displayed centrally at the base of the throne below the figure. A circular uncial legend runs along the inner border of the coin. |
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| Obverse lettering | S MIRTInVS AREPS |
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The anonymous goldgulden issues of Mainz belong to a politically fraught period when the Rhenish archbishops were maneuvering collectively against imperial authority and local nobility. In 1354, Mainz, Cologne, Trier, and the Palatinate had formalized the Rhenish Monetary Union, which drove the anonymization of certain gulden issues — individual archiepiscopal identity was deliberately suppressed in favor of a unified coinage that would circulate without political friction across all member territories.
Felke 189 falls within a narrow attribution window specific to the archiepiscopate around 1380, identifiable primarily by die characteristics rather than any overt issuer marking.