1 Guldiner

Breisach's guldiners of this period were struck during some of the most turbulent decades in Upper Rhine politics, as the city navigated competing pressures from the Habsburgs — who had formally taken control of the city in 1198 and retained it as a strategically vital Rhine crossing — and the mounting disruptions of the Reformation sweeping through neighboring territories. The guldiner itself as a denomination had been pioneered in the Tyrol in the 1480s, and by the mid-sixteenth century municipal mints like Breisach were adapting the large silver format to local civic and commercial needs.

The Davenport reference SG#8971 places this squarely within the south German city coinage tradition rather than the imperial series.