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2 Mites - Joan of Wezemaal
| Issuer | Lordship of Rummen |
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| Year | 1464-1474 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | A short-footed cross with a fleur-de-lis placed at its center, the arms of the cross extending toward the inner border of the surrounding circular legend. The cross divides the field into four quadrants, each left plain. The legend, rendered in uncial script, encircles the entire design within a beaded or plain inner border, consistent with the hammered coinage of the late medieval Low Countries. |
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| Mintage | ND (1464-1474) |
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Rummen was a small lordship in the Brabantine borderlands, and Joan of Wezemaal — who held it through inheritance in the third quarter of the fifteenth century — represents one of the few female issuing authorities in the Low Countries' feudal minting record. Her copper issues are scarce precisely because minor lordships of this scale rarely sustained continuous minting; production was often episodic, tied to local market demands rather than any systematic monetary policy from Brussels or Liège.
The Van der Chijs reference places this type firmly within a cataloguing tradition that remains the standard for Low Countries feudal coinage, though individual die varieties within the sequence are underreported.