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Penning - John V
| Issuer | Megen, Lordship of |
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| Year | 1440 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Central field displaying a floriated or foliate cross with trefoil or lily terminals to each arm, a common reverse type for Low Countries denier-class coinage of the mid-fifteenth century. The cross divides the field into four quarters, each containing a small ornamental element. A surrounding circular legend in uncial Latin letters runs along the coin's periphery, largely illegible due to heavy wear and surface corrosion. The flan is irregular in shape, consistent with hand-hammered billon production. |
| Reverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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John V of Megen issued these small billon penningen during a period when the lower Rhine lordships were minting aggressively to meet local exchange demand that larger regional powers were failing to supply. Megen itself was a modest lordship on the Maas, and its coinage rights were perpetually contested — the very act of striking was often a political assertion as much as an economic one.
Van der Chijs 8#3.18 places this type among a cluster of mid-fifteenth-century issues that are rarely encountered outside Dutch institutional collections.