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Groot - Diederick van Zuylen
| Issuer | Lordship of Anholt |
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| Year | 1348 |
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| Weight | 2.1 g |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features an ornate floriated long cross dividing the field into four quadrants, each containing a displayed eagle, a device commonly associated with imperial or lordly authority in medieval Rhenish coinage. The arms of the cross are elaborately decorated with floral or foliate terminals, and a quatrefoil or small rosette appears at the center. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, with the circumferential uncial Latin legend naming the issuing lord reading: THEODERICVS DNS DE SVILEN. |
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| Reverse lettering | ✠ THEODERICVS : DnS : DE SVILEN (Translation: Diederick, Lord of Zuylen) |
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The Lordship of Anholt, a small territory straddling what is now the Dutch-German border, issued coins under the van Zuylen family during the mid-fourteenth century when feudal minting rights were aggressively asserted by minor lords seeking economic leverage over local trade routes. Diederick van Zuylen's tenure coincided with the catastrophic spread of the Black Death through the lower Rhine region, which disrupted commerce and mint operations across the Low Countries from 1347 onward.
The vdCh reference trailing with a hash mark indicates the type remains incompletely catalogued in van der Chijs — surviving examples are few enough that die linkage studies have never been completed.