Florette Monnayage du Duc de Bourgogne au nom du Roi

Philippe II — Philip the Bold — died in 1404, making a 1419 issue impossible under his authority. The coin belongs instead to John the Fearless, who governed Burgundy from 1404 until his assassination on the bridge at Montereau in September 1419. The ducal mints struck florettes in the king's name throughout this period as part of the monetary ordinances of 1417, which attempted to stabilize a currency system badly eroded by years of Anglo-French conflict and Armagnac-Burgundian civil war. John was murdered before seeing the ordinance's effects fully play out.