Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Goldgulden - John I
| Issuer | Cleves |
|---|---|
| Year | 1448-1481 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | A bold long cross divides the field into four quadrants, each occupied by the quartered arms of Cleves and Mark: the Cleves arms featuring alternating horizontal bars and the Mark arms displaying a checky pattern with a central rosette. The heraldic shield is superimposed at the centre of the cross, and a beaded inner circle frames the design, with the mint legend distributed across the four quadrants in uncial Latin characters. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
John I ruled Cleves from 1448 until his death in 1481, a reign long enough to see multiple die combinations in his gulden series. The Noss and Schulten references both treat this type as a Rhine gulden struck to the weight standard established by the 1386 Kurverein agreement among the Rhenish electors — a standard Cleves, as a non-electoral duchy, adopted voluntarily to keep its coinage acceptable in regional trade.
Fr#1368 groups several die variants under a single Fivaz-Morowitz number, meaning individual pieces can differ meaningfully in their mint execution without distinction in most auction records.