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Agnel 'Mouton d'Or' - Joanna and Wenceslas
| Issuer | Duchy of Brabant |
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| Year | 1357-1371 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicts the Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) standing left on a ground line, with a detailed woolly fleece rendered in fine punched relief; the lamb carries a long-staffed cross with a banner over its shoulder, the staff topped by a fleur-de-lis finial. Above the lamb's head appears a fleur-de-lis, and the inscription 'BRABANT' or a ducal title is inscribed in the lower field below the ground line. The entire central device is enclosed within an inner beaded circle, with the Agnus Dei motif following the established French royal agnel tradition adapted for the Brabantine ducal coinage of Joanna and Wenceslas. The peripheral legend in Gothic uncial characters encircles the field between the inner and outer raised rims. |
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| Obverse lettering | + AGn`. DEI. QVI. TOLL`. PECA. mVDI. mISERERE. nOB.' (Translation: Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have pity on us) |
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Joanna of Brabant and her husband Wenceslas of Luxembourg issued this coin jointly, a reflection of the co-rulership arrangement formalized after Joanna inherited the duchy in 1355. The mouton type itself was borrowed directly from the French royal model established under Philip IV — a deliberate political signal that Brabant's currency carried equivalent prestige to Capetian gold.
Wenceslas died in 1383 at the Battle of Baesweiler's aftermath, leaving Joanna to rule alone for another decade. Coins struck under joint authority are thus confined to the window Delmonte catalogues as G#43, before his death dissolved the pairing entirely.