Ghent (Gent in the province of East-Flanders, Belgium) was untill 1467 one of the most important mints of the county of Vlaanderen.
The city itself also minted coins of which the earliest of which are dated to the reign of Karel de Kale (Karel the Bald)
(840-877) of the Carolingian dynasty. During the First World War, emergency paper money has been produced.