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Gulden
| Issuer | City of Nijmegen (Dutch States) |
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| Year | 1499 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | Saint Stephen, protomartyr, is depicted full-length and nimbate, standing in a frontal hieratic pose within a beaded inner circle. He holds a palm frond in his right hand, symbolising martyrdom, and a book — likely the Gospels — in his left. The figure is rendered in the flat, linear style characteristic of late-fifteenth-century Low Countries hammered coinage. The surrounding legend in Gothic uncial script reads S STEPHAN PROTHOM, identifying the saint as Stephen the first martyr, and is contained between the inner circle and the milled outer border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Nijmegen held a peculiar status in the late fifteenth century — a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire that simultaneously maintained deep ties to the Burgundian Netherlands, a dual allegiance that made its coinage politically loaded. The right to strike gold was jealously guarded and frequently contested; this gulden falls within a brief window before Habsburg consolidation effectively ended municipal minting autonomy across the region. Delmonte G#667 is among the scarcer civic gold issues of the period precisely because the city's minting activity was already contracting under external pressure by the turn of the century.