Gros - John II of Luxembourg

Walincourt was a minor lordship in the Cambrésis whose lords exploited a well-established feudal privilege — the right to strike imitative coinage — by copying the royal gros tournois almost exactly. These pieces circulated alongside the genuine French royal issues, which is precisely why the imitation was worth making. The PA#6928 type dates to the period when John II held the lordship, a tenure that overlapped with Philip IV's aggressive campaign to suppress unauthorized minting across the Low Countries and northern France.

Philip's monetary ordinances of the early fourteenth century specifically targeted lords like those at Walincourt. That this type exists at all suggests production outpaced enforcement.