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1 Goldgulden - Rupert I
| Issuer | Palatinate |
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| Year | 1385-1390 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Full-length frontal figure of Saint John the Baptist standing in the field, clad in flowing robes, holding a long cross-scepter in his right hand and a lamb or book in his left. The saint's nimbed head is depicted facing forward within a mandorla-style halo. The legend RVPERT DVX COMS PAL runs along the inner margin of a beaded border in uncial characters, identifying the issuing authority, Rupert I, Duke and Count Palatine. |
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| Obverse lettering | RVPERT DVX COMS PAL |
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Rupert I of the Palatinate was one of the four imperial electors who formed the Kurverein von Rhense in the mid-fourteenth century, a coalition that asserted the electors' exclusive right to choose the King of the Romans without papal confirmation. The goldgulden issued under his authority carried that political weight directly — Rhenish electoral gold coinage was as much a declaration of jurisdictional independence as it was a trade medium.
Felke 495 places this type within the broader Rhenish gulden coinage standardized by the 1386 Kurverein mint treaty, which fixed weight and fineness across the participating electorates.