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1 Mite - Jacqueline of Bavaria
| Issuer | Hainaut, County of |
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| Year | 1417-1433 |
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| Currency | Gros (1071-1506) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A large long cross pattee dominates the reverse field, its expanding arms extending to the beaded inner circle and dividing the field into four quadrants, each containing a lobe of a smaller quadrilobe or quatrefoil motif centered at the intersection. The cross arms intersect the surrounding Gothic legend, a common feature of medieval Flemish mites. A beaded tressure separates the inner cross design from the outer circular legend, which is rendered in Gothic script with triple-dot punctuation. The design is typical of the monetary workshop at Valenciennes during the early fifteenth century. |
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Jacqueline of Bavaria's rule over Hainaut was contested almost from the start — she inherited the county in 1417 following her father William IV's death, then spent the better part of the next decade fending off challenges from her uncle John of Bavaria, her estranged husband John IV of Brabant, and ultimately Philip the Good of Burgundy, who stripped her of effective control by 1428. Coinage struck under her name during this period reflects jurisdictional chaos as much as monetary policy.
She formally renounced her titles to Philip in 1433, the same year this issue's production ended.