1 Turnose - Arnold III of Randerode

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.