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Denier - Henri VII
| Issuer | County of Luxembourg |
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| Year | 1288-1295 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | A small pattée cross occupies the center of the field. Surrounding the cross, a circular legend in Latin uncial characters reads between two concentric circles of pearls, commencing at approximately 1 o'clock. The overall design is characteristic of medieval hammered coinage of the County of Luxembourg. |
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| Reverse description | The Luxembourgish shield dominates the reverse, its field divided into ten sections by single incised lines. Within the shield, a crowned rampant lion with a single trilobate tail faces left. A circular legend in Latin uncial characters surrounds the shield, enclosed within a circle of pearls, commencing at the top of the shield. |
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Henri VII became Count of Luxembourg in 1288 and would go on to be elected Holy Roman Emperor in 1308, but at the time of this issue he was a minor territorial lord with a mint output to match. The denier series attributed to his early reign is documented by Weiller and cross-referenced in Boudeau, though the precise sequencing of types within the 1288–1295 window remains contested among specialists.
The low surviving weight of these pieces reflects the sustained debasement pressure on small silver across the Meuse-Moselle region during the late thirteenth century, as competing lordships undercut one another's coinage to fund increasingly expensive feudal obligations.