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Denier - William II of Sombreffe
| Issuer | Lordship of Reckem |
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| Year | 1400-1475 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Reverse description | A bold footed cross, with a slightly widened foot at the base, occupies the centre of the field, its arms extending nearly to the coin's edge. Four stylized trefoil or cinquefoil flowers are placed symmetrically in each of the four angles between the arms of the cross. The coin bears no legend, and the plain field is bounded by the irregular hammered rim characteristic of late medieval Low Countries billon coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The lords of Reckem operated in the fractured monetary environment of the late medieval Low Countries, where small lordships retained minting rights long after larger neighbors had absorbed or suppressed them. William II of Sombreffe held Reckem through the mid-fifteenth century, a period when Burgundian consolidation was steadily eroding the practical autonomy of minor Flemish and Brabantine seigneurs — making issues like this one products of a minting privilege already living on borrowed time.