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1 Goldgulden - John and Henry XXII

Issuer Stolberg, County of
Year 1607-1609
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Value 1 Goldgulden (3.25)
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Reverse script Latin
Reverse lettering KONRULWER E CI BLO E P M HON DOL F
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Stolberg's joint coinage under John and Henry XXII reflects the county's practice of co-rulership, a dynastic arrangement that produced relatively brief shared-reign issues before partition or succession reshuffled the governing line. The Stolberg goldgulden series of this period follows the Rhenish gulden standard, which had been entrenched in central German coinage since the late medieval period and remained the dominant gold denomination for regional counts well into the seventeenth century.

Friedrich 689 is among the scarcer citations in the Stolberg gold sequence. The three-year window and the political fragmentation of the county kept production volumes low.

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