1 Goldgulden - Christopher of Brunswick

Christopher of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel held the archbishopric under persistent political pressure — his tenure was contested almost from the start, caught between the ambitions of the Welf dynasty and the chapter's own factions. He was never fully consecrated by Rome, functioning instead as administrator, which made his right to strike coinage a matter of ongoing legal friction with imperial authorities.

Fr#431 places this squarely within the Rhine-type gulden tradition, following the Rhenish standard that had governed north German ecclesiastical gold since the late fourteenth century.