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1 Goldgulden - George
| Issuer | Brandenburg-Franconia |
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| Year | 1528-1535 |
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| Weight | 3.25 g |
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| Reverse description | A full-length frontal figure of St. John the Baptist is depicted standing, holding an open book in one hand and the Agnus Dei (lamb) in the other, rendered in the Gothic style typical of early sixteenth-century Franconian coinage. The date appears at the end of the circumscribed legend, serving to distinguish the individual annual issues within this series. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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George the Pious, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, converted to Lutheranism in 1528 — the same year this gulden series began — making Brandenburg-Franconia one of the earliest princely territories to formally adopt the Reformation. The timing is not coincidental. Asserting the right to strike gold coinage was part of a broader push by Protestant princes to demonstrate jurisdictional independence from both Habsburg authority and Catholic ecclesiastical influence.
Schrötter 590 is reasonably well documented but the series spans seven years of production across Schwabach, making die attribution an ongoing exercise.