Issuing authority

County of Hainaut

Kind: principality
Region: Western Europe, Europe

Objects are filed under the historical authority that actually issued or made them. A recorded period comes from the issuer's own reference description and is left blank where no source states it.

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Catalogue entries (2)

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Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Hainaut, maille

1150 - 1200

Silver coin. Obverse: monogram of the letter H. Reverse: short cross pattée, in the angles alternating crescent and dot. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-2414; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique striking (metalworking); measurements diameter 1.4 cm x weight 0.52 g.

Documented

Partial type record

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Hainaut, William II, 1/3 Groot

1337 - 1345

Silver coin. Obverse: rampant lion facing left. Reverse: long cross pattée, leaf decoration in the corners. Circumscription: ECO-MES-HAN-ONI. Contemporary counterfeit?. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-2415; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique striking (metalworki…

Documented

Partial type record

Dated entries by century

12th century1
14th century1

Only the 2 entries carrying their own date to within about 150 years are counted, by the earliest year given. These are catalogue holdings, not production totals.

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