Penning - John V

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.