2 Groats 'Botdrager' - Antoine of Burgundy

Antoine of Burgundy came to Brabant through the 1406 death of his cousin Philip of St. Pol's predecessor — more precisely, he inherited the duchy from his aunt Joan's line after a tortuous succession that left the Low Countries politically fragmented. The "Botdrager" nickname, referring to the barrel or tub the figure carries, became common parlance among merchants navigating the complex currency landscape of the early fifteenth-century Low Countries, where Burgundian monetary policy was still consolidating across multiple duchies.

Antoine died at Agincourt in 1415, making his brief minting period — including this 1410–1411 issue — a compressed window of production.