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Gulden - Frederick III of Blankenheim
| Issuer | Bishopric of Utrecht |
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| Year | 1409-1423 |
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| Value | 1 Guilder (30) |
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| Reverse description | A haloed ecclesiastical figure, identified as a saint patron, is depicted full-length in a frontal, enthroned posture in the gothic style, wearing liturgical robes with finely incised drapery folds. The figure raises his right hand in a gesture of benediction and holds a tall staff or cross in the left hand, flanked on either side by elaborate gothic architectural canopies with pinnacles rising toward the upper field. A small heraldic shield appears at the base of the figure. The surrounding circular Latin legend reads MONETA RYNESIS, identifying this as the coinage of Rhenen, with decorative stops separating the lettering. |
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| Mint | Rhenen |
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Frederick III of Blankenheim held the see of Utrecht from 1393 until his death in 1423, a tenure marked by persistent conflict with the nobility of Guelders and Holland over episcopal territorial rights. This gulden was struck during the period when Frederick was actively minting to fund those political entanglements — Utrecht's gold coinage of the early fifteenth century was as much an instrument of lordly assertion as a commercial necessity in the Rhine trade network.
Delmonte's classification of this type as G#932 places it among a relatively small group of documented episcopal gold issues from the northern Low Countries, where ecclesiastical minting authority was already under pressure from secular competitors by the 1420s.