In Maubeuge (present day located in the French department of Nord), coins were minted from the eighth century (Carolingians)
and subsequently in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. In the 16th century, lead-tin payment tokens were produced
for the church for payments within the city and—in 1542—temporarily for the whole of Hainaut, with a value of one Hainaut
penny or two mites.