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Gold Royal - Jean the Blind
| Issuer | Luxembourg |
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| Year | 1310-1346 |
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| Value | Gold Royal (1) |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Reverse description | A floriated cross with fleurs-de-lis terminals is set within a four-lobed (quadrilobe) border, creating four rounded compartments each containing floral and trefoil ornamental devices. Small crowns are placed in each of the four angles between the arms of the cross and the quadrilobe. The central crossing features a quatrefoil motif, and the overall design is richly decorated in the ornate Gothic style typical of royal coinage of the period. The circumferential legend in uncial Latin reads XPC VINCIT XPC REGNAT XPC IMPERAT, the traditional Christogram acclamation invoking Christ as conqueror, king, and ruler. |
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Jean the Blind, Count of Luxembourg and King of Bohemia, struck this royal as part of his broader effort to align Luxembourg's coinage with the prestigious French royal gold issues then circulating across northern Europe. The type closely follows the French royal d'or of Philip IV, whose monetary influence extended well into the neighboring principalities during the first half of the fourteenth century. Jean himself was effectively absent from Luxembourg for much of his reign, consumed by military campaigns across Bohemia, Poland, and Lithuania.
He died at Crécy in 1346 — blind for the last decade of his life, yet famously insisting on being led into the battle by his knights.