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1 Groschen - Adolphus I Kleve
| Issuer | County of Cleves |
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| Year | 1368-1390 |
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| Currency | Pfennig |
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| Reverse description | A bold double-barred cross occupies the central field, its four arms terminating in trefoil or three-leafed floral finials rendered in the Gothic manner. The ornate cross fills the majority of the reverse field, with the decorative foliage at each arm end clearly articulated. A circular Latin legend in uncial script surrounds the design along the coin's rim. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Adolphus I ruled Cleves during a period of territorial consolidation along the lower Rhine, and his groschen issues reflect the broader adoption of the Flemish gros model that was reshaping regional currency across the Low Countries in the second half of the fourteenth century. Cleves at this point was not yet a duchy — that elevation came only in 1417 — and these coins circulated in a county still asserting itself among competing Rhine lordships.
The Noss Be#87 reference places this within Bernhard Noss's foundational typology of Cleves coinage, still the standard classification for the series.