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Double Schauguldiner - Maximilian I Hall
| Issuer | Hall Mint |
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| Year | 1505 |
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| Weight | 44.06 g |
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| Obverse description | Left-facing armored bust of Emperor Maximilian I, crowned with an elaborate jeweled crown, his long hair flowing down behind his neck. The emperor is depicted in three-quarter armor, holding an ornate scepter in his right hand, rendered in high relief in the Renaissance portrait style characteristic of the Hall Mint. A beaded inner border separates the central effigy from the surrounding circular Latin legend. The portrait is of exceptional artistic quality, attributed to the engraver Benedikt Burkhart, and conveys the imperial dignity of the Holy Roman Emperor with fine detail in the armor's articulation and the crown's ornamentation. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Schauguldiner — literally a "show gulden" — was never intended for circulation. Maximilian I commissioned these oversized silver pieces as diplomatic gifts and display objects, exploiting the new capabilities of the Hall mint's screw press technology, which had made large-format struck coinage viable for the first time in the early 1490s. The double format pushed that capacity to its limit.
Hall in Tirol was Maximilian's preferred mint precisely because Tirolean silver production was funding his perpetually debt-ridden campaigns. The 1505 date places this piece squarely within his Italian ambitions and ongoing friction with Venice.