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Stuiver 'Woechey' - Arnold van Egmond
| Issuer | Guelders, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1423-1473 |
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| Currency | Groot (1046-1506) |
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| Obverse description | Facing bust of Arnold van Egmond, Duke of Guelders, depicted in three-quarter or full-face view, wearing a crown and armorial surcoat, with heraldic eagles or wings flanking the figure in the field, rendered in the bold, somewhat crude style characteristic of mid-fifteenth-century Low Countries hammered coinage. The bust occupies the central field and is executed in low relief with visible wear consistent with circulation use. A beaded inner circle frames the central device, with the peripheral legend in Gothic uncial lettering running along the coin's rim within a dotted border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Arnold van Egmond's long tenure as Duke of Guelders was defined less by stable governance than by chronic warfare — against his own father, against Burgundy, and eventually against his own son Adolf, who imprisoned him in 1465 and held him captive for nearly seven years. The ducal mint was operating under financial strain for most of this period, and the Woechey series reflects that: a debased, repeatedly renegotiated currency kept alive largely because the duchy needed silver in circulation regardless of its quality.
The "Woechey" name likely derives from a colloquial Low German term for the weekly market coin — these circulated hard in the Guelders market towns.