1 Goldgulden - Bohemund II

Bohemund II of Saarbrücken served as Archbishop of Trier from 1354 to 1362, and his goldgulden issues fall squarely within the period immediately following the Golden Bull of 1356 — the imperial decree that formally codified the Archbishop of Trier as one of seven electors of the Holy Roman Emperor. That constitutional moment gave the Rhenish electoral archbishops both the legal authority and the political incentive to issue gold coinage on a more systematic basis, as electoral dignity demanded currency to match.

The Rhenish goldgulden of this period were closely modeled on the Florentine florin, which had dominated European trade gold for nearly a century. Noss Tr#34 places this type within a tightly catalogued sequence for Trier.