Agnel 'Mouton d'Or' - Joanna and Wenceslas

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.