Adrian de Gaveren held Elsloo as a small lordship in the Meuse valley, and his copper issues of this denomination reflect the fragmented monetary reality of the late-medieval Low Countries, where dozens of minor lords exercised the right of coinage alongside the great territorial princes. The privilege was frequently contested — the Burgundian dukes spent much of the fifteenth century trying to suppress or absorb exactly these petty minting operations.
Van der Chijs and Lucas both catalogued this type, but surviving examples are scarce enough that die studies remain incomplete.
Adrian de Gaveren held Elsloo as a small lordship in the Meuse valley, and his copper issues of this denomination reflect the fragmented monetary reality of the late-medieval Low Countries, where dozens of minor lords exercised the right of coinage alongside the great territorial princes. The privilege was frequently contested — the Burgundian dukes spent much of the fifteenth century trying to suppress or absorb exactly these petty minting operations.
Van der Chijs and Lucas both catalogued this type, but surviving examples are scarce enough that die studies remain incomplete.