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1 Mite - Joan of Merwede
| Issuer | Gerdingen and Stein, Lordships of |
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| Year | 1449-1467 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by a Burgundian-style quartered heraldic shield, rendered in relief within a plain inner circle. The shield displays the complex armorial bearings associated with the lordship, with visible divisions and charges typical of mid-15th-century Low Countries heraldic coinage. A double beaded circle frames the central device, with the Latin legend distributed around the periphery between the inner and outer borders. The overall style is characteristic of hammered coinage of the Burgundian sphere, with irregular flan surfaces and bold, if somewhat crude, die-engraving. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Joan of Merwede inherited the lordships of Gerdingen and Stein through the tangled dynastic politics of the Low Countries in the mid-fifteenth century, making her one of the relatively few female lords issuing coinage in her own name in this region and period. The mite — the smallest denomination in the Brabantine monetary system — was the workhorse of street-level commerce, and lordships this minor struck them partly as assertion of seigneurial rights, not purely from fiscal need.
The van der Chijs and Lucas references place this type among a thin cluster of survivals; Gerdingen and Stein never operated at scale.