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Gold Guilder
| Issuer | Metz, City of |
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| Year | 1563-1620 |
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| Weight | 3.28 g |
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| Obverse description | Central device features the civic shield of Metz set within a decorated fleur-de-lis polylobe, itself contained within a hexalobe whose angles are framed by a beaded or ringlet border. The heraldic shield displays the arms of the city of Metz in high relief. The surrounding legend, rendered in Gothic or Roman capitals, encircles the entire composition, reading from the obverse inscription outward. |
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| Obverse lettering | + FLORENVS. CIVITATIS. METENSIS. (Translation: Florin of the city of Metz.) |
| Reverse description | Full-length standing figure of Saint Stephen, the protomartyr, depicted facing left and wreathed, within an almond-shaped mandorla. The saint holds a palm frond in his left hand as an attribute of martyrdom, with the mandorla intersecting both the upper and lower portions of the surrounding legend. The composition is rendered in a Gothic style characteristic of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century municipal coinage. |
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