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1 Turnose 'Groschen Tournois' - William II
| Issuer | Duchy of Jülich |
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| Year | 1361-1393 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse description | Central device depicts a stylized ducal crown within a beaded inner circle, replacing the châtel tournois of the French prototype. The surrounding border features twelve fleurs-de-lis alternating within Gothic architectural cusped frames, arranged in a continuous decorative ring around the inner circle. The ruler's abbreviated name and title appear in Gothic lettering in the legend between the inner beaded circle and the outer beaded rim. The overall composition reflects the Tournois groschen tradition adapted to the heraldic vocabulary of the Duchy of Jülich. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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William II of Jülich — elevated to Duke in 1356 following the duchy's promotion by Emperor Charles IV — issued this gros tournois imitation at a moment when Rhenish territories were flooded with French-derived silver coinage. The type copies the French royal tournois with enough fidelity to function in regional trade circuits while asserting local minting authority. Jülich's position between the great ecclesiastical mints of Cologne and the commercial centers of the lower Rhine made such issues economically shrewd rather than merely imitative.
Noss JMA#91 is the standard reference attribution for this type within the Jülich municipal and aristocratic series catalogued by Alfred Noss in the early twentieth century.