1 Groschen - Louis II

Louis II ruled Hessen during a period of persistent dynastic fragmentation, and his coinage reflects the financial pressures of a mid-fifteenth century landgraviate constantly negotiating its position among competing imperial territories. The Groschen denomination by this point was already a workhorse of regional exchange across the Rhineland and central German states, though individual landgrave issues varied considerably in fineness as silver supplies and political circumstances dictated.

The Schütz reference places this firmly within the established typology for Hessian groschen of the period, but the thirteen-year span of issue suggests these were struck across multiple die generations rather than a single emission.