2 Groats 'Braspenning' - Philip the Good

Philip the Good authorized this issue during a period when Flemish commercial cities were demanding more reliable small silver for day-to-day trade settlement. The braspenning — the name derived from "brasse," a unit of account used by Flemish merchants — filled a genuine gap between the larger double groot and the increasingly debased copper small change circulating in the markets of Bruges and Ghent.

Philip's mint administration during the 1420s was notably aggressive in standardizing alloy across his Burgundian territories, a direct response to the flood of underweight imitations entering from neighboring lordships.