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1 Goldgulden - Louis III
| Issuer | Palatinate |
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| Year | 1426-1436 |
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| Value | 1 Goldgulden (20) |
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| Obverse description | Full-length frontal figure of Louis III, Elector Palatine, standing in the field wearing a crown and long flowing robes, holding a banner or sceptre in his right hand and a globus cruciger or orb in his left. The figure is rendered in the Gothic hammered style typical of Rhenish goldgulden of the early fifteenth century. The legend LVDOVICVS D G COM PAL RHE runs around the periphery within a beaded inner circle, identifying the issuer as Ludwig (Louis) by the grace of God, Count Palatine of the Rhine. |
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| Mintage | ND (1426-1436) |
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Louis III, Elector Palatine, struck these gulden during a period when the Palatinate held unusual influence over imperial politics — he had been a key broker at the Council of Constance and remained deeply involved in the electoral college maneuvering that followed. The Rhenish gulden standard these coins conform to was fixed by the Rhenish Electoral Union, a monetary compact among the archbishops of Mainz, Cologne, and Trier alongside the Palatinate, originally formalized in 1386 and periodically renegotiated to manage debasement pressure from competing mints.
Felke 1128 distinguishes this type within Louis's output by die characteristics specific to the Heidelberg or Bacharach mint attribution.