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1 Groat - Arnold V Tournois castle
| Issuer | Loon, County of |
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| Year | 1279-1323 |
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| Currency | Gros (1190-1366) |
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| Reverse description | Stylised Tournois castle depicted at centre, rendered in the conventional Gothic manner with towers and crenellations, enclosed within a beaded circle. The field surrounding the castle bears the mint legend in uncial Latin. An outer decorative border composed of twelve arcs, each containing a holly leaf, frames the entire design, a distinctive regional adaptation of the standard Tournois gros reverse type. |
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| Mintage | ND (1279-1323) |
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Arnold V of Loon ruled during a period when the groot tournois — modeled on the French gros tournois of Louis IX — was spreading rapidly through the Low Countries as regional lords scrambled to issue competitive silver coinage capable of functioning in long-distance trade. The County of Loon, sandwiched between the Prince-Bishopric of Liège and the Duchy of Brabant, had limited monetary independence in practice, and Arnold's imitative groats reflect that precarious position rather than any strong autonomous mint tradition.
The forty-four year span of this attribution reflects genuine uncertainty in the literature — Baerten and Lucas assign overlapping but not identical date ranges, and die studies have not resolved the sequencing conclusively.