1 Blanken - John I

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背面描述	A long cross pattée extending to the inner circle, its arms terminating in flared ends and dividing the field into four quarters, each containing a small star or mullet in the angles. The cross cuts through the innermost of two concentric circular legends, which encircle the entire design within a beaded border, typical of Rhenish blanken coinage of the mid-fifteenth century.
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附加信息	John I ruled Cleves during a period of persistent small-change scarcity across the Lower Rhine, and the blanken was specifically introduced to fill the gap between the heavy silver coinage and the near-worthless copper issues that dominated petty commerce. The denomination takes its name from the Middle Dutch word for "bright" or "shining" — a reference to the freshly blanched silver surface that distinguished it from debased local imitations flooding the same markets. Cleves maintained its mint rights jealously during John's tenure, a privilege repeatedly contested by neighboring Gelderland and the ecclesiastical mints of Cologne.

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