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1 Guilder 'Karolus goudgulden' - Charles V
| Issuer | County of Flanders |
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| Year | 1521-1551 |
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| Value | 1 Gulden |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | DA M VIRTVTE COTRA hOSTES TVOS (Translation: Give me strength over your enemies) |
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The Karolus guilder was authorized under Charles V's monetary reform of 1521, which attempted to rationalize the chaotic patchwork of coinage circulating across the Habsburg Low Countries. Flanders, as the wealthiest and most commercially active of those territories, was among the primary minting authorities for the issue. The .583 fineness was a deliberate compromise — fine enough for credibility in international trade, debased enough to generate seigniorage revenue for a perpetually cash-strapped imperial treasury funding wars on multiple fronts simultaneously.
The type runs thirty years, which makes die-linked specimens of particular interest to specialists working the Delmonte sequence.