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1 Goldgulden - Christoph Francis of Hutten
| Issuer | Bishopric of Würzburg |
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| Year | 1724 |
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| Weight | 3.23 g |
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| Obverse lettering | CHRIST · FRANCIS · EPISCOP · HER · FRANC · ORIENTAL · DVX |
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| Mintage | 1724 |
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Christoph Francis of Hutten served as Prince-Bishop of Würzburg from 1724 to 1729, and this goldgulden was struck in the opening year of his episcopate — a standard assertion of territorial coinage rights that German ecclesiastical princes exercised jealously against encroachment from both the Habsburg center and neighboring secular lords. The Hutten family had deep roots in Franconian imperial politics, most famously through Ulrich von Hutten a full two centuries earlier, though that connection was rhetorical at best by the 1720s.
Franconian goldgulden of this period are genuinely scarce in any grade; the Bishopric's gold output was modest, and Helmschrott 584 is not a commonly traded reference number.