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1/4 Groot - Gilbert of Bronckhorst-Batenburg
| Issuer | Lordship of Anholt |
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| Year | 1402-1429 |
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| Currency | Groot (1335-1506) |
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| Obverse description | Two flanking towers, each surmounted by a cross, frame the central design in a Gothic architectural arrangement. Beneath the towers, a heraldic shield displays a single-headed eagle displayed, serving as the arms of the lord of Anholt. The overall composition is rendered in the crude relief typical of low-denomination hammered billon coinage of the early fifteenth-century Low Countries. The devices occupy the central field within a beaded inner circle, with the outer legend zone separated by a plain linear border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Gilbert of Bronckhorst-Batenburg acquired the lordship of Anholt in 1402, and like many minor Rhineland lords of the period, exercised his minting rights aggressively — small billon fractions like this quarter groot were the workhorses of local trade, circulating primarily within the tight orbit of regional markets rather than crossing into broader imperial commerce. Anholt's mint output from this period is poorly documented, and surviving pieces attributable to Gilbert remain genuinely scarce.