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Groat 'Drielander' - Jacqueline and John IV of Brabant
| Issuer | Hainaut, County of |
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| Year | 1420-1421 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse lettering | ✠ IOh: DX: BRAB: Z: LImB: COm: hAn: hOL: Z: 3E (Translation: John, Duke of Brabant & Limburg, Count of Hainaut, Holland and Zeeland) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Struck during one of the most politically fractured moments in Low Countries history, this coin reflects the joint authority of Jacqueline of Bavaria as Countess of Hainaut and her husband John IV of Brabant — a marriage that was both a dynastic calculation and, almost immediately, a disaster. John proved an ineffectual ruler, and Jacqueline would soon flee to England, placing herself under the protection of Henry V and later sparring with Philip the Good of Burgundy in a prolonged struggle to retain her inheritance. The "Drielander" type circulated across three territories simultaneously, a practical response to chronic small-change shortages afflicting the region's markets in the early 1420s.