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Gold Écu 'Chaise d'Or' - Albert of Bavaria
| Issuer | Holland, County of |
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| Year | 1391 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse lettering | ✠ AELBERT ⁑ DVX＊ COm ＊hOLAnD ⁑ Z ⁑ 3EL (Translation: Duke Albert, Count of Holland and Zeeland) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Albert of Bavaria governed Holland as regent, then count, through a period of persistent factional warfare between the Hoeken and Kabeljauwen — rival noble blocs whose conflict destabilized the county for much of the fourteenth century. This coin was struck amid that turbulence, when asserting fiscal and dynastic credibility through high-quality gold coinage was itself a political act. The chaise d'or type was a deliberate imitation of the prestigious French royal model, a calculated borrowing of Valois monetary prestige by a Wittelsbach ruler working to consolidate his position in the Low Countries.