1/2 Sterling - Guy of Dampierre

Guy of Dampierre held Namur from 1263 until ceding it to Philip IV of France in 1298 under financial duress, making this issue a product of the county's final decades of meaningful independence. The half sterling denomination reflects the deliberate imitation of English sterling coinage then circulating widely across the Low Countries — a pragmatic response to the commercial dominance of English silver in Flemish trade networks during the latter thirteenth century.

At 0.47g, these were struck to a fractional standard that saw heavy attrition in circulation, and survivors are correspondingly scarce.