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Gold Rider - Guy of Luxembourg
| Issuer | County of Saint-Pol |
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| Year | 1364-1371 |
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| Weight | 5.64 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A bold floriated cross with trefoil terminals at each arm, the crossing enriched with a central ornamental boss, the whole set within a cusped quadrilobe formed by four pointed arches, with floral motifs filling the spandrels between the lobes. The quadrilobe is enclosed within a beaded inner circle. A Latin legend referencing Christ's sovereignty encircles the outer border, reading XPC VINCIT XPC REGNAT XPC IMPERAT. |
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Guy of Châtillon, Count of Saint-Pol, issued this gold rider during a period when the ransom crisis following Poitiers had drained the French monetary system and prompted a proliferation of feudal gold coinage across the northern lordships. The great ordinance of 1360 that established the franc did not immediately suppress seigneurial minting — lords with retained privileges continued striking independently, and Saint-Pol was among them.
The weight standard aligns closely with the French franc à cheval, a deliberate choice to keep the coin credible in cross-border transactions with Artois and Hainaut.