Lot 5844

Goldgulden nd., Judenburg (Fr.1, DeMey256, CNA E1) - Obv: Florentine lily; DVX • ALB ERTVS / Rev: St. John standing holding scepter and raising hand in benediction; + S • IOHA NNES • B - Gold 3.47 g. - VF/XF, a handsome example of this first gold issue from Austria imitating the Florentine Fiorino d'oro. After a nearly 600 year absence of gold coinage in Central Europe, the spread of the Florin through trade from Genoa and Florence following its introduction in 1252 ignited a flurry of imitative types throughout Europe in the 14th century, beginning primarily in Bohemia and then spreading west through Austria and Hungary into the German dominions