Rhenish gold-gulden reckoning
The Rhenish gold gulden became a regional monetary unit and a model for later gulden accounts.
- Common standard
- Electoral agreement of 1385; revised in 1386
- Earlier development
- Fourteenth century; exact account origin uncertain
- Ancestry branch
- See family connections
Sources for the facts [1]
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Rhenish gold-gulden reckoning
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Rhenish gold-gulden reckoning
Florentine gold-florin reckoning
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The story
Rhenish authorities incorporated florin-derived money into domestic systems and coordinated their gulden standard. [1]
Gold-gulden reckoning also supplied the background to accounts that later retained fixed numbers of smaller units. Such accounts could diverge from the gold coin. [2] [3]
Turning points
A common standard
The electoral union coordinates the Rhenish gulden standard. [1]
Sources and evidence
- Deutsche Bundesbank · Mittelalterliche Goldmünzen in der Münzensammlung der Deutschen Bundesbank (1982)
- Gerhard Schön · Münz- und Geldgeschichte der Fürstentümer Ansbach und Bayreuth im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert (2008); Deutsche Bundesbank · Deutsche Taler: Vom Dreißigjährigen Krieg bis zum Ende der Talerprägung (foreword 1967)
- Ursula Kampmann, MoneyMuseum · Die Zürcher und ihr Geld (2006)
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