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.
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.