1/4 Groat - Philip the Handsome, Regency

Philip the Handsome was only four years old when this coin was struck, making the "Regency" designation precise in the strictest sense — his father Maximilian of Habsburg governed the Low Countries on his behalf following Mary of Burgundy's fatal riding accident in 1482. The County of Holland's mint output during these years was entangled with the broader political turbulence of the Habsburg consolidation of Burgundian territories, complicated further by Flemish towns actively resisting Maximilian's authority throughout the mid-1480s.

The billon content here sits well below even the already debased fractions of the period — roughly one part silver in seven.