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Agnel 'Gouden lam' - Edward
| Issuer | Guelders, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1358-1371 |
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| Currency | Groot (1046-1506) |
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| Obverse description | Agnus Dei depicted in left profile with head turned back to the right, nimbus behind head, supporting a long processional cross adorned with a banner; the entire device is enclosed within a beaded inner circle framed by a ring of Gothic arcs. The Agnus Dei motif follows the Franco-Flemish agnel tradition, rendered in the flat, stylized manner typical of mid-fourteenth-century hammered coinage. The circumferential legend incorporating the issuer's name EDVARD runs continuously around the border. |
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| Reverse description | An elaborate floriated triple cross occupies the center of the reverse field, with a rose or roundel at the crossing point and fleurs-de-lis or lily motifs filling the four angles. The entire composition is set within a quadrilobe formed by four cusped arcs, with pointed projections at the cardinal points and trefoil ornaments in the exterior spandrels, creating a highly decorative Gothic frame. The circumferential legend bearing the Christus Vincit acclamation runs around the outer border in Latin majuscules. |
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Edward of Guelders struck this agnel in direct imitation of the French mouton d'or, a type that had circulated so widely across the Low Countries that local princes found it politically and commercially necessary to produce convincing equivalents. The French prototype had been issued by Philip IV and his successors from 1311 onward, and by the mid-fourteenth century its weight standard had become a de facto benchmark for trans-regional trade along the Rhine corridor.
Edward's death in 1371 — captured at the Battle of Baesweiler fighting against the Duke of Jülich — ended both his reign and this issue abruptly.