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1/2 Groat `Baudekin with spear` - Guy IV Elincourt
| Issuer | County of Saint-Pol (Saint-Pol, French States) |
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| Year | 1300-1317 |
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| Currency | Groot (-1506) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (1300-1317) |
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Guy IV de Châtillon, count of Saint-Pol, issued this coinage under the complex feudal monetary rights he held in the Artois region during a period when the French crown was actively consolidating control over baronial minting privileges. The "baudekin" type — named for a rich brocaded silk fabric fashionable in northern France and the Low Countries — reflects the cultural vocabulary of the Picard nobility. His county was territorially squeezed between Flanders, Hainaut, and the royal domain, and his minting activity was correspondingly limited in both duration and volume.
Guy IV died in 1317 at the Battle of Cassel's aftermath campaigns, closing this issue's production window abruptly.