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1/2 Groot - Frederik III
| Issuer | Lordship of Bergh |
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| Year | 1387-1416 |
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| Value | 1/2 Groat (Groot) |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicting two rampant lions addorsed and facing inward, each supporting a decorated tournament helmet between them, rendered in the Gothic heraldic style typical of late medieval Low Countries coinage. The composition is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, with the peripheral legend in uncial Latin characters running along the outer margin of the flan. The hammered flan is irregular in shape and the relief is worn, consistent with circulation use. |
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| Obverse lettering | FRDERICVS DOMINVS BERG (Translation: Frederick, Lord of Bergh) |
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Frederik III van den Bergh ruled a small lordship in the Guelders-Cleves border region during a period when local lords routinely exercised minting rights as a direct revenue source rather than as any coordinated monetary policy. The van den Bergh family had held those rights intermittently since the thirteenth century, and the coins produced under Frederik reflect the broader fragmentation of currency in the lower Rhine corridor — where a traveler crossing a few miles might encounter half a dozen different issues of wildly varying fineness.
Van der Chijs 16.3 distinguishes this half groot by die specifics that separate it from closely related issues under the same ruler.