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<p>[QUOTE="seth77, post: 3969179, member: 56653"]You open the year with your <i>brabantine </i>and 11 months later this is probably the best specimen to complement your post:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1044408[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>A <i>demi-gros a l'ecu</i> of Jan III, minted in Bruxelles about 1326-1330, which I think circulated at an exchange rate of double esterlin (or double brabantine). These are presumably very rare if you ask the dealers in the Netherlands and there was only one in the de Wit collection (Kunker 121, 1130), but of the early and usual type, with + SIGnVM : CRUCIS legend on the cross side. This one is one of the back of the series, when apparently CRUCIS became + SIGnVM : CRUCI✿, a scarcer variation.</p><p><br /></p><p>Similar example <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=834863" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=834863" rel="nofollow">here</a>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="seth77, post: 3969179, member: 56653"]You open the year with your [I]brabantine [/I]and 11 months later this is probably the best specimen to complement your post: [ATTACH=full]1044408[/ATTACH] A [I]demi-gros a l'ecu[/I] of Jan III, minted in Bruxelles about 1326-1330, which I think circulated at an exchange rate of double esterlin (or double brabantine). These are presumably very rare if you ask the dealers in the Netherlands and there was only one in the de Wit collection (Kunker 121, 1130), but of the early and usual type, with + SIGnVM : CRUCIS legend on the cross side. This one is one of the back of the series, when apparently CRUCIS became + SIGnVM : CRUCI✿, a scarcer variation. Similar example [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=834863']here[/URL].[/QUOTE]
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