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1 Goldgulden - William II
| Issuer | County of Berg |
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| Year | 1360-1380 |
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| Currency | Albus (1101-1520) |
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| Obverse description | Central shield bearing the quartered arms of Berg, divided into fields displaying lions passant, set within an ornate Gothic foliate frame of intertwining branches and trefoils. The armorial shield is presented frontally in the field with decorative floral cusping surrounding it. A circular beaded border frames the entire design, with the Latin legend running continuously around the periphery. The overall composition reflects the Gothic heraldic style typical of Rhenish goldgulden of the mid-fourteenth century. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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William II of Berg struck these gulden during a period when Rhenish princes were aggressively minting gold to compete with Florentine and French coin dominance in regional trade. The County of Berg, controlling key routes through the lower Rhine valley, had commercial incentive to produce credible gold currency — but its issues were always small in volume, minted opportunistically rather than systematically. Noss catalogued several die varieties for this type, and the Be#77b designation places this among the more precisely documented emissions of William's otherwise loosely documented coinage.