Groat RUMEN - Arnold of Oreye

Arnold of Oreye acquired the lordship of Rummen through inheritance in the mid-fourteenth century, a period when the Low Countries were saturated with competing feudal coinages imitating the popular Flemish and Brabantine groat types. His issues fall squarely within the wave of imitative silver struck by minor lordships exploiting the monetary fragmentation of the region — each petty lord legally entitled to mint, few doing so with any long-term monetary ambition. The three catalog references here reflect genuine die variation across the issue rather than cataloger disagreement.