Issuing authority
Electorate of Mainz
- Kind
- principality
- Region
- Central Europe, Europe
Objects are filed under the historical authority that actually issued or made them. A recorded period comes from the issuer's own reference description and is left blank where no source states it.
Published entries
5
Individual types and documented families
With photographs
100%
5 with a credited real-object photo
Dated span
1397 – 1696
5 entries with their own date
Verified or well documented
0
Highest two confidence levels
Catalogue entries (5)
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Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
modern coins
Archbishopric and Electorate of Mainz, gold gulden, Jan II van Nassau, 1397-1419
1397 - 1419
Gold coin. Obverse: standing John the Baptist, facing. Reverse: composite coat of arms of Mainz-Nassau between two small shields. Struck in Höchst. Originating from the Merula orphanage coin hoard, Brielle 1929. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-1079A; its record gives material recorded as go…
Partial type record
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
modern coins
Rhenish guilder
ca. 1430
Gold Rhenish guilder, struck by Konrad von Dhaun, Rhinegrave and Archbishop of Mainz (1419 - 1434). Obverse: blessing bishop with mitre and crosier. Coat of arms at the bottom; inscription: CONRAD' ARC'PI'MA'. Reverse: coat of arms in trefoil; inscription: MONETA NOVA AUREA BIN. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds thi…
Partial type record
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
modern coins
Albus from the Bishopric of Mainz of Johann Philipp von Schönborn, 1667
1667
Silver coin. Obverse: within two branches, composite coat of arms, surmounted by a flower. Reverse: within two tied branches, value designation in two lines, below which the date. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-0759A; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique striking…
Partial type record
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
modern coins
Taler on the Peace of Nijmegen, in honor of Anselm Franz Count of Ingelheim, Archbishop of Mainz
1679
Silver taler. Obverse: bust of a man above a crowned coat of arms within an inscription. Reverse: hand from clouds balances peace branches on a scale against a sword within an inscription. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-VG-1-1271; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique s…
Partial type record
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
modern coins
Lothar Franz von Schönborn, Archbishop of Mainz and Bishop of Bamberg
1696
Obverse: female figure with olive branch and shield within legend. Reverse: coat of arms within legend. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-VG-1-1781; its record gives material recorded as gold (metal); technique striking (metalworking); measurements diameter 2 cm x weight 3.46 g.
Partial type record
Dated entries by century
- 14th century1
- 15th century1
- 17th century3
Only the 5 entries carrying their own date to within about 150 years are counted, by the earliest year given. These are catalogue holdings, not production totals.
Materials recorded in the physical descriptions
- Gold3
- Silver2
An entry made of several materials is counted once under each. Materials are counted only where the description states them.
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