Denier - Henry of Leuven

Herstal, a small lordship wedged between the Prince-Bishopric of Liège and the County of Namur, passed to Henry of Leuven through inheritance lines that were perpetually contested by the Liège episcopate. Henry held the lordship for only three years before his death in 1285, making this denier one of the shortest-lived issues in the lower Meuse regional coinage sequence. The multiple reference concordances — vdCh, VanH, Lucas, and Dengis all cataloguing it separately — reflect how actively scholars of Mosan numismatics have worked to untangle the dense web of small feudal issues from this corridor.