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1 Goldgulden - Froben of Mösskirsch
| Issuer | Helfenstein-Gundelfingen, County of |
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| Year | 1611 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The County of Helfenstein-Gundelfingen was among the smallest and most financially marginal of the imperial counts in Swabia, and its coinage rights were exercised so rarely that a single Goldgulden issue could represent the entirety of a reign's gold output. Froben of Mösskirsch held the county during a period when minor imperial estates frequently minted prestige gold pieces less for circulation than to assert their status within the Holy Roman Empire's fractured hierarchy of sovereignty.
Fr#1189a suggests this is a variety distinction within an already vanishingly small issue — the Friedberg catalog's assignment of a lettered subtype to a county of this obscurity implies the total surviving population is measured in single digits.