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Groschen Cromsteert - John II of Luxembourg Elincourt mint
| Issuer | Saint-Pol |
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| Year | 1430-1441 |
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| Currency | Groot (-1506) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Elincourt |
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John II of Luxembourg held Saint-Pol through inheritance from his father, and his decade-long tenure over the county coincided with the final, chaotic phase of the Hundred Years' War — a period when English-Burgundian control of northern France was collapsing and local lords were scrambling to assert fiscal independence through coinage. The Elincourt mint operated under this political pressure, producing billon groschen for regional circulation at a moment when trust in larger monetary authorities was badly eroded.
The "Cromsteert" designation refers to a crooked or curved tail, a die-characteristic nickname applied to this type in the Low Countries tradition of naming coin varieties by visual quirks.