Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Sterling - Reinoud I
| Issuer | Guelders, Duchy of |
|---|---|
| Year | 1272-1326 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 1 Sterling (⅓) |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Facing crowned effigy of the duke rendered in high medieval style, enclosed within a beaded inner circle. The bust is stylized with schematic facial features typical of Low Countries sterlings of the late 13th century, surmounted by a prominent crown with fleurs. The circumferential legend in uncial characters is separated from the central device by the beaded border, reading in abbreviated Latin the title and name of the issuing count. The overall die work is characteristic of hammered coinage of the Guelders mint circa 1290. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | ND (1272-1326) - Circa 1290 |
| Additional information |
Reinoud I ruled Guelders during a period when English sterling pennies had become so dominant in Low Countries commerce that local lords began striking deliberate imitations to capture seigniorage from the trade. This piece is one of those imitative sterlings — not a forgery in the modern sense, but a conscious policy decision to participate in the currency system that English merchants had effectively imposed on the region's markets.
The type references in van der Chijs and Mayhew's sterling corpus place it firmly within the broader Low Countries imitative series that flooded northern European fairs from roughly the 1270s onward.