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Flemish groot–pound reckoning: research record

Evidence coverage: 1435–1435. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.

This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.

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Flemish groot–pound reckoning

CUR-V49-FLEMISH-GROOT · Research draft
One scoped currency identity. Changes to subdivisions, scale, standard, instruments or issuers do not by themselves create children. A distinct account unit can remain a successor.
Dated observations: 1435; this does not establish the entire lifetime.

Parents / predecessors

No distinct predecessor currency is established in the loaded view.

Children / successors

No distinct successor currency is established in the loaded view.

Unit and issue records 1 records

Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.

Flemish pound and groot reckoning · C2116

Adopted as a monetary basis by

◇ Dutch guilder (euro predecessor)unit adoption

Leuven accounts changed from a gold-based Rhenish gulden to a fixed 20-stuiver unit after 1460. This local evidence helps explain Dutch gulden development but does not establish a nationwide transition date.

After 1460 · regional fixed-account adoption; precise transition uncertain

20 stuivers = 40 Flemish groten = one-sixth Flemish pound

Fixed stuiver reckoning replaces a variable gold reference in the regional accounting evidence.

The post-1460 observation concerns Leuven. The interval is a research window, not a dated national enactment or proof of every intermediate stage.

Unit adoption is a historical event; no continuing peg is inferred. Excluded from ancestry, sibling relationships and depth.

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Flemish pound and groot reckoning

Flemish reckoning used a pound of 240 groten. The later 20-stuiver gulden represented 40 Flemish groten, or one-sixth of that pound.

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Account-unit observations

Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.

1435supported

Flemish reckoning used a pound of 240 groten. The later 20-stuiver gulden represented 40 Flemish groten, or one-sixth of that pound.

C2116
Evidence & research notes 1 claims

Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.

Supported C2116

Flemish reckoning used a pound of 240 groten. The later 20-stuiver gulden represented 40 Flemish groten, or one-sixth of that pound.

John H. Munro · Money and Coinage in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (undated) Citation S1116 · Open source ↗

Printed pp. 19–20; Leuven Rhenish-gulden accounts and the fixed Flemish relationship

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Inference C2120

Leuven accounts changed from a gold-based Rhenish gulden to a fixed 20-stuiver unit after 1460. This local evidence helps explain Dutch gulden development but does not establish a nationwide transition date.

John H. Munro · Money and Coinage in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (undated) Citation S1116 · Open source ↗

Printed pp. 19–20; Leuven Rhenish-gulden accounts and the fixed Flemish relationship

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

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