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Agnel 'Gouden lam' - Edward
| Issuer | Guelders, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1358-1371 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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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.