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 - Philip
| Issuer | Palatinate |
|---|---|
| Year | 1493-1502 |
| 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 | Round (irregular) |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Within a pointed trilobe frame, the four-fold quartered arms of the Palatinate and Bavaria are displayed, with a central escutcheon at the fess point. Three small subsidiary shields of arms are positioned in the cusps of the trilobe points. The heraldic composition is rendered in the Gothic style typical of late 15th-century Rhenish goldgulden. The obverse legend, interrupted by the trilobe, reads PHILI - P.C.P.R. - DVX. BA, identifying the issuer as Philip, Count Palatine of the Rhine and Duke of Bavaria. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| 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 |
Philip the Upright, Elector Palatine from 1476 to 1508, struck these gulden during a period when the Rhenish electoral mints were bound by successive currency conventions — the Rheinischer Münzverein agreements periodically set the gold standard for the entire region, forcing member electors into negotiated weight and fineness norms. His issues from this decade reflect compliance with the 1490s convention standards rather than any independent monetary initiative.
Frühwald 1982 places this type within a well-documented Heidelberg output, but die alignment and minor legend variants across the issue suggest production was not confined to a single working period.