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1 Goldgulden Osnabrück Münster City issue
| Emittent | Osnabrück, City of |
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| Jahr | 1423-1473 |
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| Material | Gold (.500) (Fineness differed. Initially it was .771, but was soon lowered to .500) |
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| Reversbeschreibung | The reverse presents a quartered or divided heraldic shield within a beaded inner circle, incorporating the arms associated with the joint Osnabrück-Münster municipal issue. Gothic trefoil or quatrefoil ornaments appear at intervals around the shield, a decorative convention common to Rhenish-style goldgulden of the period. A circular uncial Latin legend runs along the outer margin, partially worn but consistent with civic and episcopal titulature. The field displays the flat, lightly recessed characteristics of hammered gold coinage struck from hand-engraved dies. The overall design closely follows the Rhenish goldgulden tradition adopted by participating Westphalian towns in the mid-15th century. |
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| Rand | Plain |
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Osnabrück's civic goldgulden emerged from a bitter struggle between the city and its bishop over the right to strike gold coinage — a privilege the municipal government pursued aggressively through the mid-fifteenth century. The deliberately debased fineness, dropping from roughly .771 to .500 over the coin's production run, reflects not incompetence but calculated policy: the city was competing in regional trade circuits where lighter-gold issues from smaller mints had become normalized, and matching that debasement was a commercial survival decision.
The fifty-year span of this type, shared between Krusy's Osnabrück and Münster attributions, makes die-linking between individual pieces genuinely difficult.