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Agnel 'Mouton d'Or' - Joanna and Wenceslas
| Issuer | Brabant, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1357-1371 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
| Obverse lettering | + AGN` o DEI o QVI o TOLL o PCCA o MVDI o MISERERE o NOB` WEN DVX |
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The mouton d'or type originated with the French royal coinage of Philippe V around 1311 and was widely imitated across the Low Countries throughout the fourteenth century — a deliberate act of monetary prestige borrowing, not independent design. Joanna and Wenceslas adopted the type for Brabant during a period when the duchy was navigating the commercial rivalries between English wool merchants and Flemish textile interests, and a recognizable gold coinage mattered for cross-border trade credibility.
Wenceslas of Luxembourg brought his own dynastic weight to the joint rule, having governed Brabant alongside Joanna from 1355 until his death in 1383. The Franco-Burgundian monetary orbit this coin inhabits makes Delmonte's classification essential for distinguishing Brabantine strikes from the crowded field of regional imitators.