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1 Goldgulden - Philip
| Issuer | Palatinate |
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| Year | 1500-1506 |
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| Composition | Gold |
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| Obverse description | The obverse displays the tripartite electoral shield of the Palatinate within a beaded inner circle, consisting of the lion of the Palatinate (left), the checkered lozenge arms of Bavaria (right), and a third shield below, all surmounted by a large Gothic initial 'P' for Elector Philip. The date appears integrated into the surrounding Latin legend along the outer field. The reverse is depicted on the second image and shows a standing figure of the Virgin Mary in mandorla-style rays, holding the Christ Child, with a bishop or saint standing at her side, all rendered in the characteristic late Gothic hammered style typical of Rhenish goldgulden of the period. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a full-length frontal figure of the Virgin Mary standing in glory, depicted within a radiate mandorla, holding the Christ Child on her left arm. To her left stands a mitred bishop saint bearing a crozier, rendered in a flowing late Gothic style. The figures stand on a ground line within a beaded inner circle. The surrounding Latin legend, separated by pellet stops, references the Angelic Salutation, a common devotional motif on Rhenish goldgulden of this era. |
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Philip the Sincere, Elector Palatine, issued this goldgulden during the final years of his long reign — he had held the electorate since 1476 and died in 1508, having survived the political turbulence that shredded much of the Rhenish nobility around him. The Rhenish gulden type was by this point a product of the long-standing monetary convention among the four Rhenish electors, whose cooperative minting agreements dating to the late fourteenth century had effectively standardized the gold currency of the western empire.
Philip's issues are catalogued under multiple overlapping reference systems precisely because no single authority ever consolidated Palatine coinage comprehensively — hence the five separate citations this piece carries.