Double Sterling - Baudouin of Avesnes

Baudouin of Avesnes held Beaumont as a lordship under the County of Hainaut, and his coinage of this period reflects the broader proliferation of baronial silver issues in the southern Low Countries during the 1270s — a direct consequence of Louis IX's French monetary reforms pushing regional lords to assert their own minting rights before royal centralization closed that window permanently. The double sterling type specifically mimics English sterling penny weight standards, a deliberate choice to facilitate cross-Channel commerce through Flemish markets.