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1 Turnose - Arnold III of Randerode
| Issuer | Lordship of Randerath |
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| Year | 1364-1384 |
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| Currency | Groschen |
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| Obverse description | Central short-footed cross occupying the field, enclosed within two concentric pearled circles. Two registers of Latin uncial legend fill the annular space between and beyond the pearled borders, reading outward. The design follows the Tours gros tournois typology, with the cross serving as the principal motif. The overall execution is characteristic of hammered late medieval German lordship coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Arnold III ruled Randerath during a period when minor Rhenish lordships routinely struck their own silver coinage to assert jurisdictional independence from larger neighbors — particularly Jülich, which absorbed Randerath shortly after this series ended. The turnose type was itself a local adaptation of the French gros tournois, which had circulated so widely through the Low Countries since Philip IV's issues that regional lords found imitation commercially unavoidable.
Menadier catalogued this piece as one of fewer than a dozen recorded specimens from Arnold III's entire coinage.