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Gold Royal - Peter IV
| Issuer | Bishopric of Cambrai |
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| Year | 1359 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse lettering | IOHES LVCAS MARCVS MATHEVS |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Peter IV of Cambrai — Pierre de André — held the bishopric from 1349 to 1368, a tenure that coincided with the most catastrophic decade in medieval French demographic history. The Black Death had already torn through the region by 1359, and the Hundred Years' War had reduced much of the surrounding countryside to contested wasteland following the disaster at Poitiers three years earlier. Ecclesiastical mints like Cambrai, which held independent minting rights under the Holy Roman Empire, continued striking gold precisely because secular monetary authority had fractured so badly.
Delmonte lists this type among the rarer episcopal gold issues of the Low Countries.