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Gold Crown - Albert of Bavaria
| Issuer | County of Holland |
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| Year | 1393-1395 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | + AELBERTVS ⁑ DVX ⁑ COmES ⁑ hOLAnDIE ⁑ Z ⁑ ZELAnDI (Translation: Duke Albert, Count of Holland and Zeeland) |
| Reverse description | Central motif consists of a floriated cross pattée with fleurs-de-lis terminating each arm, set within a quadrilobe or quatre-foil frame whose cusped lobes are adorned with fleurs-de-lis in the spandrels, following the classic French crown-type design. The cross divides the inner field into four compartments each containing a fleur-de-lis. The entire central composition is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, surrounded by the circumferential Scriptural legend between two beaded borders, with small decorative stops separating the words. |
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Albert of Bavaria ruled Holland as count from 1389 until his death in 1404, a period of near-constant friction with the Kabeljauwen and Hoeken factions whose civil conflict had destabilized the county for generations. This crown issue falls within the Hook and Cod Wars' quieter interlude, when Albert was consolidating Bavarian Wittelsbach control over the Low Countries inheritance he had acquired through his wife Margaret of Brieg.
The Delmonte G#727 attribution places this among the rarer gold emissions of Holland's medieval sequence — the county's gold coinage was always limited relative to its silver output, driven more by diplomatic necessity than domestic trade demand.