Rhenish gulden
The Rhenish gulden or Rhenish guilder (
History
The Rhenish gold gulden was created when the
The Rhenish gulden or florin began in 1354 as a copy of the Florentine
As a result of the widespread minting of gold guldens by the electors of Cologne, Mainz, Trier and the
The
Importance
Rhenish gold guldens were of central importance to the German monetary system until modern times. It developed into the most common long-distance trading coin in Bohemia, Hungary, Germany, Switzerland, Moravia, the Netherlands, Spain and France. Not only gold, but also silver coins were valued according to their value in Rhenish guldens, and thus their rate (value) was set.
The annual rent in the Augsburg Fuggerei is to this day a Rhenish gulden (€0.88 today).
See also
References
- ^ page 19, Rhenish florin https://www.economics.utoronto.ca/munro5/MONEYLEC.pdf
- ^ Kelly, Patrick (1821). The Universal Cambist, and Commercial Instructor: Being a Full and Accurate Treatise on the Exchanges, Monies, Weights and Measures of All Trading Nations and Their Colonies; with an Account of Their Banks, Public Funds, and Paper Currencies.