An Intriguing Sterling of John I of Brabant 1268-1294 – Denis Martin

It is now almost forty years since N. J. Mayhew published a masterly study of the coinage produced in Northern Europe in the late 13^th and early 14^th centuries imitating the English sterling. This, the first major publication on the subject written in English, carried references to the works of earlier authors many of which are rather inaccessible to present day collectors of these sterling imitations. Mayhew had been unable to find a coin to illustrate in his book for example M50 although he had records of its existence. Such a coin, recently bought by the author from Jean Elsen et ses Fils, Brussels, provided an interesting field for research using information from foreign authors of the 19^thand 20^th century.