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1 Goldgulden - Christopher of Brunswick
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Bremen |
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| Year | 1521 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse lettering | • TIBI • ME • CO MEDO • PET` • |
| Reverse description | A pointed trefoil frame dominates the reverse, enclosing a shield of Brunswick bearing two leopards passant, itself superimposed upon a cross. Three small subsidiary shields of arms occupy the points of the trefoil. The uncial Latin peripheral legend concludes with the date 1521 at the end of the inscription. |
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Christopher of Brunswick served as Archbishop of Bremen from 1511 until his death in 1558, though his tenure was deeply complicated by the rapid spread of Lutheran reform through the city — Bremen's burghers were among the earliest in northern Germany to embrace Protestant doctrine, creating persistent friction between the civic population and their Catholic archbishop. This gulden was struck just four years after Luther's Ninety-Five Theses, at a moment when the archbishop's temporal authority over the city was already beginning to erode irreversibly.
The Friedberg 432 attribution places this squarely within the established Rhine gulden weight standard.