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Gold Écu - John III of Bavaria
| Issuer | Holland, County of |
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| Year | 1422 |
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| Value | Florin (Gulden) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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John III of Bavaria held the County of Holland only briefly — his rule lasted from 1418 until his death in 1425, making the window for his coinage exceptionally narrow. The gold écu issued under his authority follows the French écu type then dominant across the Low Countries, a deliberate political alignment with Valois monetary conventions at a moment when Bavarian-Wittelsbach control of Holland was far from secure.
Delmonte G#735 is among the scarcer Holland gold issues of the early fifteenth century, reflecting both the brevity of the reign and the administrative turbulence of a county that would pass to the Habsburgs within two generations.