1 Goldgulden - Bertold of Henneberg

Berthold von Henneberg served as Archbishop of Mainz from 1484 until his death in 1504, but his tenure as Archchancellor of Germany made him one of the most consequential political figures of the late Holy Roman Empire. He was the principal architect of the Reichsreform of 1495 — the sweeping constitutional restructuring that established the Reichskammergericht and imposed the Ewiger Landfriede — and these gulden were struck in the years immediately preceding that transformation, when his political capital was at its height.

Mainz's right to strike gold coinage derived from its membership in the Rhenish League of Electors, whose minting conventions governed gulden weight and fineness across the Rhine corridor well into the sixteenth century.