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1 Gulden - Charles V
| Issuer | Deventer, Kampen, Zwolle, Imperial Cities of |
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| Year | 1523 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | ✠ KAROLVS ⋆ ROMANO ⋆❜ IMPERATO ❜ (Translation: Charles, Emperor of the Romans) |
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| Mintage | 1523 |
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The three IJssel cities — Deventer, Kampen, and Zwolle — struck this joint issue under imperial privilege granted by Charles V, whose authority over the Habsburgs' Low Countries holdings was still being consolidated in 1523. The arrangement was unusual: three nominally independent cities pooling minting rights under a single type, a pragmatic accommodation that reflected both their economic interdependence along the IJssel trade route and the emperor's interest in standardizing coinage across the region.
Delmonte G#1081 is among the scarcer of the Low Countries gold gulden types, with surviving examples spread thinly across institutional and private collections.