Finds
Who struck the coins I found: per country the issuers (states, cities and bishoprics), and under them the monarchs and church rulers whose name or portrait is on the coins. Coins only; other finds are under All finds.
Belgium
Kingdom that became independent from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1830. The currency was the franc, divided into centimes.
- Leopold III1934-195111 finds
- Albert I1909-193412 finds
- Leopold II1865-19098 finds
- Leopold I1831-18658 finds
After the War of the Spanish Succession the Southern Netherlands passed to the Austrian Habsburgs. The area covered much of present-day Belgium and stayed Austrian until the French conquest in 1794. Formally the area still belonged to the Burgundian Circle of the Holy Roman Empire, but it was governed from Vienna.
- Maria Theresa1740-17805 finds
The Southern Netherlands under the Spanish Habsburgs, after the split with the Northern Netherlands. The area covered much of present-day Belgium and was governed from Brussels. Formally it belonged to the Burgundian Circle of the Holy Roman Empire, but the Spanish king held the real power.
- Charles II1665-17005 finds
- Philip IV1621-16652 finds
An ecclesiastical state within the Holy Roman Empire, ruled by a prince-bishop. It included much of present-day Limburg, also in Flanders, and struck its own coins until the French period.
- John Theodore of Bavaria1744-17636 finds
- Maximilian Henry of Bavaria1650-16881 find
- Ferdinand of Bavaria1612-16501 find
A medieval and early modern county in the Southern Netherlands, with Namur as its capital. It passed through the Burgundians to the Habsburg Netherlands and remained there until the French annexation in 1795.
- Maximilian II Emmanuel1679-17261 find
Netherlands
The Kingdom of the Netherlands was founded in 1815. Coins from this period carry the portrait of the reigning king or queen.
- Juliana1948-19801 find
- Wilhelmina1890-19481 find
- William III1849-18901 find
After the fall of Napoleon, North and South were united under King William I. The kingdom broke apart with the Belgian Revolution of 1830. Coins from this short period are still found in Flanders.
Holland was the most powerful province of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. Each province struck its own copper duits, so many local variants exist.
Zeeland was a province of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands, with Middelburg as its mint. The province struck its own duits until the end of the Republic.
Utrecht was one of the provinces of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. In the 17th and 18th centuries the city issued its own copper duits.
Germany
The German republic between the Empire and the Nazi regime. In 1923 the mark lost almost all its value to hyperinflation; the rentenmark followed, with the rentenpfennig as small change.
In 1871 the German states were united in the German Empire, with the mark and the pfennig as a shared currency. Small copper and nickel coins from that time turn up regularly.
The archbishop of Cologne was also an elector of the Holy Roman Empire and ruled an ecclesiastical state of his own, the Electorate of Cologne. The coins carry the name of the reigning archbishop.
- Clemens August1723-17611 find
Aachen was the city of Charlemagne and held the status of free imperial city within the Holy Roman Empire. Until the French occupation in 1794 the city struck its own copper coins, such as the heller.
France
The French republic that arose after the fall of Napoleon III and lasted until the German invasion of 1940. Its silver coinage was struck in francs.
France issued coins in the 19th century under several regimes, among them the July Monarchy of Louis-Philippe and the Second Empire of Napoleon III. French money ended up in Flanders through proximity and the French presence in our region.
- Napoleon III1852-18703 finds
- Louis-Philippe I1830-18481 find