1 Goldgulden - Frederick Charles of Schönborn

Frederick Charles von Schönborn held Würzburg as prince-bishop from 1729 to 1746, simultaneously ruling Bamberg — a dual appointment that concentrated extraordinary ecclesiastical and secular power in a single figure at a moment when the Schönborn family had effectively turned the Franconian church into a dynastic possession. This gulden was struck in the inaugural year of his Würzburg tenure, almost certainly as a presentation or ceremonial piece given the M designation in Krause.

The .770 fineness places it below the Rhenish gulden standard, a deliberate choice common among smaller ecclesiastical mints managing bullion costs against political prestige.