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Gold Guilder
| Issuer | Metz, City of |
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| Year | 1563-1620 |
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| Value | 1 Gold Guilder or Florin (3.25) |
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| Obverse lettering | + FLORENVS. CIVITATIS. METENSIS. (Translation: Florin of the city of Metz.) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Metz maintained its status as a free imperial city within the Holy Roman Empire, retaining minting rights that most French-controlled cities had long since surrendered. These guilders were struck across a period spanning the French Wars of Religion and the early decades of Catholic-Protestant tension that would eventually culminate in the Thirty Years' War — pressures that made Metz's political independence a matter of active negotiation rather than passive inheritance.
Fr#164 is among the scarcer Rhenish-type gold issues from the Lorraine region, with surviving examples concentrated in a handful of European institutional collections.