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Goldgulden
| Issuer | City of Bern |
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| Year | 1539 |
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| Value | 1 Goldgulden (1.8) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Imperial eagle displayed, facing left with wings spread and detailed feathering rendered in the late Gothic style, positioned at the center of the field within a beaded inner circle. The eagle serves as the heraldic device of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III, under whose imperial authority this municipal goldgulden was struck. The surrounding Latin legend names the emperor and includes the abbreviated date 39 (for 1539), divided at the top and left of the coin. |
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Bern's goldgulden issues of the sixteenth century were struck under the authority of the city council, which jealously guarded its minting rights as a marker of cantonal independence within the loose framework of the Confederation. By 1539, Bern had long since established itself as the dominant power in the western Swiss Eidgenossenschaft, and the continued production of high-quality gold coinage reinforced that economic reach into Burgundian and Savoyard trading networks. The HMZ 2-169 type is among the scarcer documented Bernese gold issues of this decade, with surviving examples concentrated in Swiss institutional collections.