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2 Groats - Philip
| Issuer | County of Saint-Pol |
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| Year | 1415-1430 |
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| Reference(s) | PA#6855 |
| Obverse description | Two heraldic shields placed side by side — those of Burgundy and Flanders — surmounted by a crested helmet topped with a fleur-de-lis finial, all within a beaded inner circle. The surrounding legend, rendered in Gothic uncial lettering, reads PHs BRABAN COIT LINEI ET SCTI PAVLI, identifying Philip as Count of Brabant, Ligny, and Saint-Pol. The design is executed in the bold, stylized heraldic tradition typical of Low Countries feudal coinage of the early fifteenth century. |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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Jean I de Luxembourg held the County of Saint-Pol during this period and was one of the most consequential figures in the Hundred Years' War — the man who captured Joan of Arc at Compiègne in 1430 and sold her to the English. His county's coinage was struck amid shifting allegiances between the French crown and Burgundy, with Saint-Pol functioning as a semi-autonomous lordship navigating both.
PA#6855 places this squarely within the Poey d'Avant corpus of feudal French silver, a series notorious for attribution difficulties given the number of minor lords issuing near-identical denominations simultaneously.