4 Mites - John I Scheiffard van Himmersbach Limbricht

John I Scheiffard van Himmersbach held Limbricht as a minor lordship in the Meuse-Rhine region during the latter half of the fifteenth century, a period when the proliferation of small feudal copper coinages in the Low Countries was already drawing complaints from larger territorial authorities trying to regulate currency circulation. The mite — a denomination so small it was essentially the base unit of daily transaction — was frequently struck by lordships with no real monetary infrastructure, and quality control was correspondingly poor.

The vdCh 8#29.2 reference places this within Chardon's classification of Limbricht types, a narrow series with few surviving specimens documented across major collections.