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4 Mites - Joan of Merwede
| Issuer | Gerdingen and Stein, Lordships of |
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| Year | 1449-1467 |
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| Value | 4 Mites (Mijten) (⅙) |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays a quartered heraldic shield surmounted by an ornate Gothic canopy or baldachin, the arms rendered in low relief consistent with mid-15th-century Low Countries hammered coinage. The shield is divided into four quarters bearing heraldic charges characteristic of the lordships of Gerdingen and Stein. A circular Latin legend runs along the periphery, partially legible, reading ✠ PhS` D [ ] Dn`, abbreviated for Philip, by the grace of God, Lord. The flan is irregular and slightly ragged at the rim, typical of hand-hammered copper coinage of this period. |
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| Reverse lettering | mOneTA nOVA[ ] (Translation: New Money) |
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Joan of Merwede inherited joint lordship over Gerdingen and Stein through a complicated Brabantine succession, and her copper issues are among the more obscure Low Countries lordship coinages of the mid-fifteenth century. Small territorial lords in this region exercised minting rights that larger ducal administrations repeatedly tried to suppress — Charles the Bold would eventually crack down hard on precisely these kinds of autonomous issues in the 1470s, just after Joan's minting period closed.
The vdCh reference trailing an octothorpe signals the type remains incompletely catalogued in van der Chijs.