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Large Ecu 'Roosebeker' - Joanna and Philip the Bold
| Issuer | Brabant, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1384-1386 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse script | Latin (uncial) |
| Reverse lettering | MONETA NOVA BRABANTIE ET FLANDRIE (Translation: New coinage of Brabant and Flanders) |
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Philip the Bold acquired Brabant through his wife Joanna in 1384, and this joint issue — struck in the two years before Joanna's death in 1386 — belongs to a very brief window of dual authority. The "Roosebeker" name derives from the Battle of Roosebeke (1382), where Philip's Flemish forces crushed the Ghent rebels under Philip van Artevelde. The ecu type was borrowed almost directly from French royal coinage, a deliberate political alignment with the Valois court from which Philip himself descended.
The .979 fineness places it among the purest gold coinages of the period in the Low Countries.