TABLE OF THE GOLD GULDEN AND DUCAT—continued.
From 1559 the Tale and Standard remained legally unaltered; the only variations being thenceforward in equivalence or tariff, thus—
| Fair of 1585 | Set the Rhenish gold gulden and Philipps thaler at 82 kr. | ||||
| 1596 | Imperial Commissioners at Frankfort set the gold gulden at 80 kr. | ||||
| About 1600 | Gulden of 1551, of 72 kr., set at 94 kr. | ||||
| Gulden of 1559, of 60 kr., set at 79 kr. | |||||
| 1602, April 10 | Brandenburg ducat set at 2 fl. | ||||
| Philipps thaler and Reichs gold gulden set at 20 batzen. | |||||
| Franconia | ducat, 67 to Cologne mark, 23 carats 8 grs. | ||||
| 1601 and 1602 | Bavaria | ||||
| Swabia | |||||
| 1604 | Ibid. (Münz Probations Tag), gold gulden, 72 to Cologne mark, 18 carats 6 grs. fine. | ||||
| 1623, July 31 | Mint Edict of John George, Duke of Saxony, Rhenish gold gulden set at 1 gulden 6 good groschen. | ||||
| 1623 | Higher Circles gold gulden = 1 fl. 44 kr. | ||||
| " | Higher Circles ducat= 2 fl. 20 kr. | ||||
| " | August 23 | Würtemberg gold gulden= 1 fl. 44 kr. | |||
| " | " | Würtemberg gold ducat= 2 fl. 20 kr. | |||
| " | " 29 | Archduke Leopold of Austria set the gold gulden at 1 fl. 52 kr. | |||
| " | " | Archduke Leopold of Austria set the ducat2 fl. 30 kr. | |||
| " | October 19 | Strasburg gold gulden = 1 fl. 52 kr. | |||
| " | " | Strasburg ducat = 2 fl. 30 kr. | |||
| " | Electoral Saxony, Philipps or gold gulden = 30 groschen. | ||||
| " | Electoral Saxony, ducat = 36 groschen. | ||||
| " | Brandenburg gold gulden = 27 groschen. | ||||
| " | Brandenburg ducat = 38 groschen. | ||||
| " | October 23 | Frankfort gold gulden = 1 fl. 44 kr. | |||
| " | " | Frankfort ducat = 2 fl. 24 kr. | |||
| " | Lower Saxony gold gulden = 26 2⁄3 groschen (= 1 fl. 40 kr.). | ||||
| 1624 | Three Circles (Franconia, Bavaria, Swabia) | ||||
| gold gulden = 1 fl. 50 kr. | |||||
| " | ducat = 2 fl. 30 kr. | ||||
| 1637 | gold gulden tolerated at 2 fl. | ||||
| " | ducat gulden tolerated at 3fl. | ||||
| (But to be reduced respectively to 1 1⁄2 fl. and 2 fl. 24 kr.) | |||||
| 1659 | Three Circles gold gulden = 2 fl. 10 kr. | ||||
| " | Three Circles ducat = 3 fl. | ||||
| 1665 | Three Circles (Franconia, Bavaria, Swabia) ducat = 3 fl. | ||||
| 1669 | Three Circles ducat = 3 fl. | ||||
| " | Three Circles gold gulden = 2 fl. 20 kr. | ||||
| 1690 | In consequence of Leipzig standard, gold gulden = 2 fl. 56 kr. | ||||
| " | In consequence of Leipzig standard, ducat = 4 fl. | ||||
| 1695 | Austrian ducat = 4 fl. | ||||
| 1736 | Austrian gold gulden = 3 fl. | ||||
| 1738 | Austrian ducat = 4 fl. (but circulating at 4 fl. 15 kr.). | ||||
| 1748 | Austrian ducat = 4 fl. 10 kr. | ||||
| 1751, May 2 | Austrian Imperial ducat = 4 fl. 10 kr. | ||||
| " | " | Austrian Kremnitz ducat = 4 fl. 1 2kr. | |||
| " | " | Austrian Other ducat = 4 fl. 7 1⁄2 kr. | |||
| 1771, March 23, | Austria (Imperial Patent) Kremnitz ducat = 4 gulden 18 kr. | ||||
| " | " | Imperial, Bavaria, Salzburg ducat = 4 gulden 16 kr. | |||
| " | " | Holland and others ducat = 4 gulden 14 kr. | |||
| 1783, Sept. 1, | Kremnitz ducat and zecchini = 4 gulden 22 kr. | ||||
| " | " | Imperial ducat = 4 gulden 20 kr. | |||
| " | " | Holland ducat = 4 gulden 18 kr. | |||
| 1786, Jan. 12, | Imperial ducat = 4 gulden 30 kr. | ||||
| " | " | Kremnitz Bavarian Salzburg ducat = 4 gulden 20 kr. | |||
| " | " | Holland ducat = 4 gulden 18 kr. | |||
| (This equivalence of 4 fl. 30 kr. remained till the Vienna Convention (at 67 to the Koln mark, 23 2⁄3 fine = 4 1⁄2 gulden, ratio = 1:15 102⁄355 (15.2873)), the ratio prescribed by the Edict of the Emperor Joseph II., of 12th January 1786.) | |||||
| 1756 | Souverain, or souverain d'or (originally Netherlands), minted in Vienna Mint, 22 carat 3⁄4 gr., 42.091 to mark gross (45.874 fine) = 6 gulden 11 kr. 1 pf. | ||||
| 1786, Jan. 12, | Souverain, or souverain d'or = 6 gulden, 40 kr. (makes a ratio of 15.2923). | ||||
| 1750 | Prussian Friedrichs d'or, 35 to mark, 21 3⁄4 carat fine (= 261 grs. of fine gold to the piece). | ||||
| 1770 | Prussian Friedrichs d'or, 35 to mark, 21 2⁄3 carat fine (= 260 grs. fine gold to the piece). | ||||
| (Confirmed by law of 30th Sept. 1821.) | |||||
| 1857 | Vienna Convention trade money (see p. [210]). | ||||
| 1871 | 10-mark piece, 139 1⁄2 to the German pound, .900 fine. | ||||
TABLE OF THE THALER.
1555, Brunswick, Luneberg, Hanover, etc.—Thaler = 32 Marien groschen = 24 silver groschen.
1558, Saxony Mint Ordinance (renewing previous ordinances in spite of the
Imperial Ordinance)—Thaler or gulden thaler, 14 loth 8 grs. fine, 8 to mark (= 8 56⁄65 to mark fine) = to 24 groschen: mark fine therefore equal to 10 fl. 38 kr.
1559, Imperial Ordinance—forbidden.
1566, Reichstag of Augsburg—again authorised; 14 loth 4 grs., 8 to the mark fine; equal 72 kr.; mark fine therefore = 9 thalers 68 kr. (10 fl. 12 kr.).
1585, Frankfort Fair—Philipps thaler = 82 kr.