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1/4 Groat - Louis I of Nevers
| Issuer | Flanders, County of |
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| Year | 1331-1337 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | A rampant lion passant, facing left with tail raised and curled, occupying the central field within a plain inner circle. The lion is depicted in the typical Flemish heraldic style, with pronounced claws and open mouth, executed in bold relief characteristic of hammered medieval coinage. A circular legend in Gothic uncial lettering surrounds the inner circle, separated by a dotted or beaded border from the outer rim. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Louis I of Nevers spent much of his reign caught between the competing demands of the French crown — to whom he owed feudal allegiance — and the Flemish wool towns whose economic survival depended on English trade. The fractional silver issues of his 1331–1337 period fall squarely within that tension: French monetary pressure had forced repeated revaluations of Flemish coinage, and small-denomination pieces were especially vulnerable to debasement edicts from Paris. Louis was ultimately killed at Crécy in 1346, fighting for France against the English allies his own subjects had long favored.