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2 Sterlings - Margaret I of Constantinople
| Issuer | County of Hainaut |
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| Year | 1269-1280 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field depicts an equestrian figure of the countess in right profile, shown mounted on a horse in a dynamic pose, rendered in the typical medieval flat relief style of hammered coinage. The rider is depicted with a lance or sceptre, conveying regal authority. The design is contained within a beaded inner circle, surrounded by the outer circular legend. The overall composition is characteristic of 13th-century feudal Low Countries coinage, with bold, stylised engraving typical of the Valenciennes mint. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Margaret I ruled Hainaut and Flanders simultaneously, an inheritance she spent decades defending against her own sons by two marriages — the Avesnes and Dampierre families — in a dynastic conflict that drew in the French crown and repeatedly destabilized the Low Countries. The sterlings she issued drew directly from the English sterling model then circulating widely across northern European trade networks, a deliberate choice that eased commercial exchange at the great Flemish fairs.
The two-reference cataloguing under both Hainaut#18 and #19 reflects a documented die variation within the type, not a separate emission.