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1 Goldgulden - Werner of Falkenstein
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Trier |
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| Year | 1407-1409 |
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| Currency | Pfennig |
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| Obverse description | Full-length frontal figure of Saint Peter, nimbed and robed in episcopal vestments, standing above a small architectural feature at the base of the field. The saint holds a long scepter or staff in his right hand and a key — his apostolic attribute — in his left. A patriarchal cross appears to the upper right of the figure. The design is executed in the bold, high-relief Gothic style typical of Rhenish goldgulden of the early fifteenth century. The legend, in uncial Gothic characters, encircles the central figure within a beaded inner border. |
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| Reverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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Werner of Falkenstein served as Archbishop of Trier twice — his second tenure, from 1388 to 1418, coincided with one of the most fractious periods in the Rhenish electoral system, when competing papal obediences during the Western Schism forced each prince-bishop to navigate allegiances carefully. The Rhenish gulden coinage was governed by a series of intermittent mint treaties among the four electoral Rhenish mints — Trier, Mainz, Cologne, and the Palatinate — and this issue falls within a narrow window when those agreements were being renegotiated.
The Noss Tr#338 attribution places it among a small group of Trier gulden distinguishable primarily by subtle die differences in the quatrefoil framing.