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1 Goldgulden - Anonymous
| Issuer | Bishopric of Münster |
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| Year | 1497-1508 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse description | Frontal enthroned figure of Saint Paul, depicted as a bearded apostle with nimbus, holding a sword in his right hand and a book or shield bearing the arms of Münster (checky pattern) in his left. The figure is flanked on either side by ornate architectural columns or pillars, rendered in a late Gothic hammered style. The surrounding field is filled with the circular legend in uncial Gothic lettering, separated by pellet stops. The overall composition follows the established Rhenish Goldgulden typology of the period. |
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| Reverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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The anonymous attribution here reflects deliberate policy: the Prince-Bishops of Münster periodically suppressed their own names from gold coinage, partly to ease acceptance across trade networks where a specific bishop's political entanglements might complicate circulation. The eleven-year span of this type covers the episcopates of Heinrich II von Schwarzburg and his successor, making firm attribution to a single issuer genuinely impossible without die-linking to dated material.
Ilisch's reference corpus for Münster remains the definitive die study for this series, and XXVII 2 is among the better-documented anonymous types.