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1 Goldgulden - John I
| Issuer | Isenburg |
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| Year | 1378-1395 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Reverse description | Central device consisting of the Isenburg heraldic shield, displaying horizontally divided barry stripes, set within a pointed Gothic heart-shaped escutcheon. The shield is surrounded by a quatrefoil or cusped inner frame, with decorative foliate or star-shaped elements radiating outward into the field. A beaded inner circle encloses the design, with the circumferential mint legend in uncial Latin script running along the outer border. The composition is typical of the armorial reverse type adopted by minor Rhenish lords in emulation of the great electoral goldgulden. The engraving displays the bold, somewhat provincial style characteristic of the Büdingen mint in the late 14th century. |
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| Reverse lettering | MONETA BVDDEGEIN (Translation: Coinage of Büdingen.) |
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John I of Isenburg-Büdingen held the right to strike gold gulden under imperial grant, one of the minting privileges extended to smaller Rhenish lords during the late 14th century as the Holy Roman Empire's monetary authority fragmented across dozens of competing mints. The Isenburg series is sparsely documented, and surviving examples are rare enough that die linkage studies remain incomplete. Grote's corpus remains the primary reference precisely because so little subsequent scholarship has tackled this county's coinage in depth.