2 Mites - Joan of Merwede

Joan of Merwede held Gerdingen and Stein through her marriage to John III of Homes, and these small copper issues were struck during the period of her active lordship in the Low Countries. Minor lordships of this kind rarely produced their own coinage at all — the decision to do so was as much a claim of jurisdictional independence as a practical monetary measure. Surviving examples in any condition are genuinely scarce; the issuing authority was simply too small and too short-lived to produce significant quantities.