Sterling - William IV

Horn was among the smallest of the Dutch lordships, and its coinage output was modest by any measure. William IV, lord of Horn in the late thirteenth century, struck these sterlings in direct imitation of the English penny — a practice widespread across the Low Countries after the type proved dominant in regional trade. The Mayhew classification places this issue firmly within the short-cross sterling tradition that flooded northern European markets following Edward I's monetary reforms of 1279.