Kuno II von Falkenstein served as Archbishop of Trier from 1362 until his death in 1388, and his tenure coincided with the consolidation of Rhenish electoral mint policy following the 1354 and 1386 unions among the four Rhenish electors — Trier, Mainz, Cologne, and the Palatinate — who cooperated to regulate goldgulden weight and fineness standards across their competing mints. This coin falls within the later emission window, likely after the 1385 monetary agreement that briefly stabilized output before Kuno's death fractured the arrangement.
Kuno II von Falkenstein served as Archbishop of Trier from 1362 until his death in 1388, and his tenure coincided with the consolidation of Rhenish electoral mint policy following the 1354 and 1386 unions among the four Rhenish electors — Trier, Mainz, Cologne, and the Palatinate — who cooperated to regulate goldgulden weight and fineness standards across their competing mints. This coin falls within the later emission window, likely after the 1385 monetary agreement that briefly stabilized output before Kuno's death fractured the arrangement.