Goldgulden - Albrecht II

Albrecht II ruled for just nineteen months before dying of dysentery during a campaign against the Ottomans in October 1439, making his coinage among the shortest-reigned of any Holy Roman Emperor. His election in 1438 also united the Habsburg crowns of Bohemia and Hungary with the imperial title for the first time — a dynastic consolidation that would define Central European politics for centuries, though Albrecht himself barely lived to see it take shape.

The brevity of the reign keeps surviving examples scarce relative to contemporaneous Rhenish gulden types.