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2 Groats 'Botdrager' - Philip the Bold
| Issuer | Valkenburg, Lordship of |
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| Year | 1396-1403 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Central field depicts a crowned armored knight on horseback facing left, holding a lance or staff over the right shoulder, with a caparisoned horse in full stride. The rider's helmet is surmounted by a crown, and elaborate drapery is visible beneath the horse's neck. A beaded inner circle frames the equestrian figure, outside of which runs the circumferential legend in Gothic uncial characters. The overall composition is characteristic of the Burgundian 'botdrager' (rider) type, struck by hammering on an irregular flan. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, acquired the Lordship of Valkenburg through his wife Margaret of Male in 1384, and the territory's subsequent coinage reflects the administrative consolidation of the Burgundian Netherlands — local types continued, but increasingly under ducal pressure to conform. The "Botdrager" type takes its name from the figure's posture, a nickname that spread across several Low Countries minting authorities in the late fourteenth century as the design was effectively copied from issuer to issuer.
The vdCh 8# citation with a dash indicates this specific variety was unrecorded or incompletely catalogued by van der Chijs, with Lucas 9 providing the more precise reference. Gaps in the van der Chijs numbering for Valkenburg reflect how thinly documented these provincial Burgundian issues remain.