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2 Groats 'Leliaert' - Philip the Bold
| Issuer | County of Flanders |
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| Year | 1387-1389 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Reverse description | Central field features a large cross pattée within a raised inner circle, the arms of the cross nearly touching the inner ring, with a small round boss at the centre. An inner legend band surrounds the cross between two beaded circles, with a second outer legend band running along the coin's periphery between additional beaded rims. Both legends are rendered in Gothic uncial script. The reverse design follows the established Flemish groot tradition, with the double-legend layout identifying both the religious motto and the mint authority. The hammered flan is slightly irregular in outline, consistent with the hand-struck technique of the period. |
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Philip the Bold acquired Flanders through his marriage to Margaret III in 1369, and by the 1380s was aggressively asserting Burgundian authority over a county that had spent decades in open revolt against French overlordship. The Leliaert coinage — named for the pro-French faction (leliaerts, "lily-men") whose political dominance Philip cultivated — was part of a broader monetary reorganization meant to align Flemish currency with Burgundian fiscal interests.
The billon content of this issue reflects the chronic silver shortage afflicting the Low Countries in the late fourteenth century, a constraint that forced repeated adjustments to alloy standards across successive issues.