File:Medieval hammered silver sterling copy of John the Blind dating from c. AD1309-1346. Metcalf 263h-j. - - (FindID 288753).jpg

English: Medieval hammered silver sterling copy of John the Blind dating from c. AD1309-1346. Metcalf 263h-j. Crowned bust facing. +EDWENEPOLONYEREX. long cross dividing legend with pellets in angles IOh' NESD EIG RAC. The diameter is 16mm and the weight .84g. John received Luxemburg from his father Henry VII, the newly elected king of the Romans, late in 1309. In August 1310 he acquired the throne, through his marriage with the Princess Elizabeth, of Bohemia. Though he struck no sterlings there, his Bohemian title appears on the sterlings struck at various mints in his county of Luxemburg.[...] John the Blind was one of the most colourful of Europe's fourteenth-century kings. He fought in a series of campaigns all over Europe, lost his sight around 1340, and rode blind to his death against Edward III at Crecy in 1346. The cost of his fighting, together with the exhaustion of his Bohemian silver mines, provide the background to the gradual debasement of both the Prager Groschen and Luxemburg's varied coinage. It should, however, be noted, that debasement in France will also have contributed to Luxemburg's debasement. Luxemburg's imitations of English sterling were notorious in their own day. They seem to have been plentiful and, particularly later in John's reign, debased. The evidence is hard to evaluate since 'lusshebournes' may have been deliberately excluded from hoards but, contrary to general opinion Luxenburg's sterlings were not the most plentiful imitations in English hoards before 1330. Coins of Gaucher of Chatillon and of Valeran ofr Ligny seem to be more numerous. After 1330, however, lusshebournes may have played a greater role (Metcalf 1983, 103).