Utrecht (1433-55) goldgulden Fr-188
This specimen was lot 6155 in Künker sale 336 (Osnabruck, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €380 (about US$497 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"NIEDERLANDE, UTRECHT, Bistum. Rudolf von Diepholz, 1433-1455. Goldgulden (Florin d'or) o. J. St. Martinsgoldgulden. GOLD. Sehr schön. (Netherlands, bishopric of Utrecht, Rudolf of Diepholz, 1433-55, undated St. Martin's goldgulden. Very fine.)"
The bishops of Utrecht issued gold coinage for their realm on occasion during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The last issue was in 1517, just prior to the wholesale conversion of the province to Protestantism. The bishop, seeing little prospect of recovering the area for the Church, sold his bishopric to Charles V in 1527. The familiar provincial coinage (see Fr-234) began with the States' Revolt of 1579.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 3.25 g, 0.986 fine gold, this specimen 3.23 g.
Catalog reference: Delm-939; Fr-188.
- Delmonte, A., Le Bénélux D'or, Amsterdam: Jacques Schulman N.V., 1964, with supplements to 1977.
- Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
- [1]Künker Münzauktionen und Goldhandel, Catalog 336: Gold coins from all over the World|German Coins after 1871. Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2020.
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