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1 Sterling - Frederick of Zuylen
| Issuer | Lordship of Anholt (Dutch States) |
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| Year | 1361-1391 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Frederick of Zuylen held Anholt as a minor lordship wedged between the competing jurisdictions of Cleves and Guelders, and his coinage reflects exactly that precarious position — sterling-weight issues copying the English penny format that had dominated northwestern European small commerce since the thirteenth century. The Low Countries were saturated with these imitations by the mid-fourteenth century, struck by ecclesiastical lords, secular nobles, and towns alike, often with deliberate ambiguity about their issuing authority.
Anholt sterlings from this period are rarely documented in contemporary mint records, and attribution often rests entirely on die study rather than archival evidence.