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Goldgulden
| Issuer | City of Zürich |
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| Year | 1621 |
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| Weight | 3.21 g |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | CIVITATIS IMPERIALIS |
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The 1621 date places this issue squarely at the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War, a conflict that immediately disrupted trade networks across the Holy Roman Empire and made the free circulation of reliable gold coinage both politically fraught and commercially vital. Zürich, as a Reformed city-state with economic ties running north into the Rhineland, had strong incentive to maintain a credible gold currency at exactly this moment.
Freeberg's reference Fr#431 covers a relatively tight series, and survivors in better condition are infrequent — not because mintages were low by intent, but because goldgulden of this type moved through merchant hands and across borders rather than sitting in domestic hoards.