1 Goldgulden - Conrad II of Weinsberg

Conrad II of Weinsberg served as Archbishop of Mainz from 1390 until his death in 1396, a tenure defined by his attempts to reassert archiepiscopal authority over a see that had been financially and politically exhausted by decades of conflict with the city of Mainz itself. The right to strike gold gulden was a jealously guarded privilege of the Rhenish electors, formalized under the Kurmainz mint agreements of the fourteenth century. This piece falls within the narrow two-year window when Conrad's administration was consolidating that prerogative before his early death cut the series short.