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1/4 Groat '1/4 Lion' - William VI
| Issuer | County of Holland |
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| Year | 1411 |
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| Currency | Groot (-1506) |
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| Obverse lettering | GVILM' DX COM' HOL ZEL (Translation: William, Duke, Count of Holland and Zeeland) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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William VI's quarter groat of 1411 falls within a period of acute political friction between Holland and the Hanseatic League over North Sea fishing rights — a dispute that repeatedly disrupted the count's revenue streams and pushed him toward aggressive monetary policy. Small-denomination silver like this circulated heavily in the port towns of Dordrecht and Middelburg, where it was ground through daily market transactions at a rate that left most survivors heavily worn.
The vdCh 6#9.7 classification places this among a tightly documented group of Low Countries fractional issues cataloged by Van der Chijs in the nineteenth century.