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Plaque with armored bust - John I
| Issuer | Lorraine, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1348-1372 |
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| Value | 1 Plaque (0.1) |
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| Obverse description | Half-length armored and helmeted effigy of Duke John I facing forward, depicted in a frontal martial pose. The duke holds an upright sword in his right hand and bears a shield blazoned with the arms of Lorraine in his left. The figure is rendered in the bold, stylized manner characteristic of 14th-century hammered coinage of the region. A circular Latin legend surrounds the central device within the coin's field. |
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| Mintage | ND (1348-1372) |
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John I of Lorraine ruled the duchy through the catastrophic years of the Black Death, which reached the region in 1348 — the same year this series begins. The plague so thoroughly disrupted trade and administration across Lorraine that maintaining consistent minting operations was itself a logistical achievement. His coinage drew heavily on French monetary conventions, reflecting decades of Capetian pressure on the duchy's political and economic autonomy.
The plaque denomination sits in a narrow window of Lotharingian silver issues that Saulcy documented with particular difficulty, noting inconsistent die workmanship across surviving specimens.