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1/4 Groat - Philip the Good
| Issuer | Brabant, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1435-1467 |
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| Weight | 0.70 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Reverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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Philip the Good's monetary reforms of the 1430s were driven less by economic idealism than by the practical chaos of competing coinages circulating across his rapidly consolidating Burgundian territories. The 1433–1434 monetary ordinances attempted to unify standards across Flanders, Brabant, and Holland, with small billon fractions like this quarter groat bearing the brunt of everyday small commerce — wages, market transactions, tolls — in a way that silver and gold issues simply did not.
Brabant's mints at Brussels, Leuven, and Mechelen all struck this type, which accounts for the mint mark distinctions tracked in the Vanhoudt references.