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Mite - Joan of Merwede
| Issuer | Gerdingen and Stein, Lordships of |
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| Year | 1449-1467 |
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| Value | 1 Mite (1⁄24) |
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| Reverse description | Central field bears a long cross pattée extending nearly to the inner border, with a lozenge or diamond-shaped central ornament at the intersection of the arms, dividing the field into four quarters. Each quarter contains a concave, leaf- or lune-shaped device, forming a symmetrical quatrefoil composition typical of Flemish and Brabantine mite coinage of the mid-fifteenth century. The cross design is boldly struck but shows the characteristic flan irregularities and surface roughness of hammered copper issues. A peripheral legend in uncial Latin script encircles the entire design, separated by a plain inner border. The overall composition reflects the standard reverse type employed for low-denomination lordship coinage in the Low Countries during this period. |
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| Reverse lettering | ✠ MONETA NOVA SIVITA (Translation: New Money of Nieuwstad) |
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Joan of Merwede inherited joint lordship of Gerdingen and Stein in the mid-fifteenth century — an unusual circumstance in the Low Countries, where female seigneurial authority over minting rights was rarely exercised directly. Her copper mites occupy a narrow window of feudal coinage in the Brabantine orbit before these small lordships lost practical monetary independence to the consolidating Burgundian administration.