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1 Goldgulden - Rupert of the Palatinate
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Cologne |
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| Year | 1468-1474 |
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| Currency | Goldgulden (1350-1550) |
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| Reverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Mintage | ND (1468-1474) |
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Rupert of the Palatinate held the Archbishopric of Cologne from 1463 until his death in 1480, though his tenure was defined less by ecclesiastical administration than by chronic conflict with the city of Cologne itself. The citizens repeatedly resisted his authority, and he was effectively excluded from residing in his own cathedral city for much of his reign — an unusual condition for a prince-bishop who simultaneously held one of the seven electoral votes of the Holy Roman Empire.
Goldgulden production under Rupert drew on the Rhine mint rights jealously guarded by Cologne's archbishops. The Noss and Felke references place this piece within a narrow die sequence spanning just six years.