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2 Sterlings - Louis II de Male
| Issuer | County of Flanders |
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| Year | 1346-1384 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A short floriated cross with fleur-de-lis terminals at each arm, centrally placed within a plain inner circle, itself enclosed by a beaded ring. Two concentric circular legend bands surround the central device, separated by a plain fillet, with the inner legend naming the coinage and the outer band bearing a devotional inscription in uncial Gothic lettering. Pellet or clover-leaf stops punctuate the legends. The overall composition follows the standard double-legend sterling type widely employed in the Low Countries during the fourteenth century. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Louis de Male inherited Flanders in 1346 following his father's death at Crécy and spent much of his reign navigating the competing pressures of English wool merchants, French dynastic obligations, and the perpetually restive Flemish urban communes. The sterling coinage draws directly from the English sterling tradition, a deliberate monetary choice in a county whose textile economy depended on uninterrupted English wool imports — antagonizing England meant empty looms in Ghent and Bruges.
His death in 1384 passed Flanders to Philip the Bold of Burgundy through marriage, ending the autonomous Dampierre comital line after over a century.