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2 Goldgulden
| Issuer | City of Zürich |
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| Year | 1512-1526 |
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| Composition | Gold |
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| Obverse description | Full-length frontal effigy of Emperor Charlemagne enthroned, richly draped and wearing an imperial crown, holding an upright sword resting across his lap and a globus cruciger in his left hand. The figure is rendered in a formal, hieratic style characteristic of early sixteenth-century Swiss civic coinage. The legend is disposed around the periphery of the field in Latin majuscules. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Zürich began striking double goldgulden in the early sixteenth century as the city's commercial reach demanded higher-denomination specie for wholesale transactions — single gulden were simply inadequate for the sums moving through the grain and textile trades at the major fairs. The dating range of 1512–1526 is notable: it closes just as the Reformation under Zwingli was transforming Zürich's civic and ecclesiastical institutions, a period of acute political disruption that affected mint operations across the Swiss cantons.
The absence of standard reference numbers across HMZ, Hürlimann, Divo/Tobler, and Friedberg simultaneously signals genuine rarity rather than cataloguing oversight. Pieces of this type are known from only a handful of institutional holdings.