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1/2 Groat - Louis I of Nevers Aalst
| Issuer | Flanders, County of |
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| Year | 1332-1334 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse lettering | + MOnETA : ALOSTEnSIS (Translation: Coinage of Aalst) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Louis I of Nevers spent much of his reign navigating the impossible tension between his feudal loyalty to the French crown and the economic demands of Flemish wool towns dependent on English trade. That contradiction exploded at Cassel in 1328, when French forces helped him crush a peasant rebellion — but the underlying pressures never resolved. This half groat, struck at Aalst in the narrow window of 1332–1334, precedes by only a few years the catastrophic breakdown that followed Edward III's wool embargo and the eventual revolt led by Jacob van Artevelde.