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Denier - Jean the Blind
| Issuer | Luxembourg |
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| Year | 1309-1346 |
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| Value | Denier (1⁄240) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The Luxembourgish heraldic shield bearing a lion rampant to the left on a barry field occupies the central reverse design, set within a circular legend that commences above the shield. The entire composition is enclosed by a beaded inner circle, consistent with the hammered coinage tradition of the County of Luxembourg under Jean the Blind. The rough, irregular flan reflects the primitive striking technique of the period. |
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Jean the Blind ruled Luxembourg for nearly four decades while simultaneously holding the Bohemian crown through his marriage to Elisabeth of Bohemia, making his monetary output a product of two distinct administrative traditions pulling in opposite directions. He died at Crécy in 1346 — charging into the English lines despite being completely sightless for over a decade, his reins allegedly tied to those of his knights.
The denier series attributed to his Luxembourg reign spans the full 37-year window, and attribution of specific die groups within that range remains contested among specialists working from the Weiller corpus.