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1 Goldgulden - Gerhard of Schwarzburg
| Issuer | Bishopric of Würzburg |
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| Year | 1372-1400 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Quartered heraldic shield displayed within a beaded inner circle, the quarters alternating between three mountain peaks (the arms of Schwarzburg) and a rampant lion (the arms of the Bishopric of Würzburg), rendered in the Gothic style typical of late 14th-century German ecclesiastical coinage. The shield is set against a plain field enclosed by a beaded border. The circumscription in Gothic uncial letters reads + GERhARDVS EPS hERBIPOLEnSIS, identifying the issuing bishop, and runs between the inner beaded circle and the outer milled rim. |
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| Reverse lettering | S IOHANNES B (Translation: Saint John the Baptist.) |
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Gerhard of Schwarzburg held the Würzburg bishopric from 1372 until his death in 1400, a period when Rhenish goldgulden were proliferating across the fragmented German territories as ecclesiastical princes scrambled to assert fiscal independence from secular rivals. The Würzburg mint's output under Gerhard was modest relative to the major Rhenish electoral mints, making surviving pieces genuinely scarce rather than artificially so.
The Ehwald reference places this firmly within the established typology for Franconian episcopal gold of the period, though die varieties within this reign remain incompletely catalogued.