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Goldgulden - Maximilian I
| Issuer | Holy Roman Empire |
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| Year | 1509 |
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| Weight | 3.23 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Full-length standing figure of the Virgin Mary holding the Christ Child, both surrounded by a mandorla of flames. Below the central figure, the quartered shield of Eberhard von Stolberg-Königstein as mint master appears in the lower field. The composition is enclosed within a beaded border, with the date 1509 and mint name BASIL incorporated into the surrounding legend. |
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By 1509, Maximilian I had spent years in chronic fiscal crisis — perpetually short of funds for Italian campaigns and Habsburg dynastic ambitions, he was simultaneously reforming imperial coinage structure through the 1559 Reichsmünzordnung's predecessors. This gulden was struck under that transitional pressure, when the Holy Roman Empire's minting authority was fragmented across dozens of estates, each with nominal obligations to imperial weight and fineness standards that were frequently, quietly ignored.
Fr#14 situates this piece within a small documented group. The HMZ 2#50h reference points to Swiss-area trade circulation, where Rhenish goldgulden of this weight class moved regularly across Alpine passes.