Coin Weight - Antwerp - Gerrit Geens

Gerrit Geens served as an official coin assayer in Antwerp during the sixteenth century, a period when the city's exchange market was among the most active in northern Europe. Coin weights of this type were produced under municipal authority to allow merchants to verify the weight of gold and silver coins against a legal standard — essential in a port city where debased foreign currency circulated alongside local issues.

Antwerp's role as the dominant commercial hub of the Habsburg Netherlands meant its assay infrastructure was unusually well developed for the period.