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Maille - Anonymous Oudenaarde
| Issuer | County of Flanders (Belgian States) |
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| Year | 1180-1220 |
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| Currency | Groot (864-1506) |
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| Obverse description | Central design featuring a stylized espaliered tree with six symmetrically arranged branches radiating from a central trunk, each branch terminating in a small square object, possibly representing a fruit or berry. The composition is rendered in a flat, schematic style characteristic of Flemish hammered coinage of the late 12th to early 13th century. The field is plain, with no surrounding legend, consistent with the anonymous emission of this type. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Oudenaarde's anonymous mailles occupy a poorly documented corner of Flemish medieval numismatics, struck during the contested decades when the county passed through the hands of Philip of Alsace and then Baldwin VIII and Baldwin IX — the latter departing for the Fourth Crusade in 1202, leaving Flemish administration fragmented. Local ecclesiastical and comital mints in this period operated with considerable autonomy, and attribution of anonymous types to specific lords remains disputed among specialists. Ghyssens' classification is the closest thing to consensus.