1/2 Gros - John of Bavaria 2nd type

John of Bavaria's tenure as Count of Luxembourg was itself an accident of dynastic maneuvering — he acquired the county in 1419 through purchase from Elisabeth of Görlitz, who had pawned it to fund personal debts. His coinage reflects the compressed administrative reality of a ruler governing a territory he held more by transaction than by inheritance, with monetary output concentrated into a narrow window before his death in 1425.

The distinction between the first and second types hinges on minor heraldic and lettering variations documented by Weiller — not a redesign, but the kind of incremental die modification that occurred when original punches wore beyond acceptable tolerance.