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Maille - Anonymous Middelburg
| Issuer | Flanders, County of |
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| Year | 1100-1200 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | A floriated cross with ornamental terminals, each arm ending in foliate or trefoil embellishments, occupying the full field of the coin. The cross is executed in the hammered Romanesque style characteristic of anonymous medieval Flemish mailles, with pellets or floral motifs decorating the angles between the arms. No legend is present. |
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| Mint | Middelburg |
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Middelburg, the principal town of Zeeland, sat under Flemish comital authority through much of the twelfth century before the region's complex jurisdictional disputes intensified. Anonymous coinages of this type — struck without a named count — reflect periods when minting authority was delegated or contested at the local level, and attribution to a specific reign remains impossible without documentary corroboration. The Ghyssens and Vanhoudt references place it squarely within the county's output, but the precise decade of striking is unresolved.