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Gros with lion - Jean the Blind

Issuer Luxembourg
Year 1309-1346
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Value Gros (1/20)
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Obverse description Central field features a large Gothic cross pattée within a beaded inner circle, dividing the design into four quadrants. The cross is rendered in a bold, slightly ornate style typical of 14th-century Luxembourg coinage. An inner legend reading +IO hAN NES REX encircles the cross within the beaded border, identifying the issuer as Johannes (John the Blind), King of Bohemia and Count of Luxembourg. An outer legend +BHDICTV⋮ SIT⋮ NOME⋮ DNI⋮ NRI⋮ DEI⋮ IhV⋮ XPI, the devotional formula 'Blessed be the name of the Lord our God Jesus Christ', runs between the beaded circle and the coin's dentilated outer rim. The lettering is rendered in Gothic uncial characters consistent with Luxembourgish hammered coinage of the period.
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Obverse lettering +IO hAN NES REX (int.) +BHDICTV⋮ SIT⋮ NOME⋮ DNI⋮ NRI⋮ DEI⋮ IhV⋮ XPI (ext.)
(Translation: John (the Blind), King Blessed be the name of the Lord)
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