Gros Blanc - Wenceslaus I

Wenceslaus I ruled Luxembourg during a period of deliberate monetary ambition — he was among the first Luxembourg rulers to issue a substantial silver coinage modeled on French gros types, an effort to assert economic parity with neighboring powers at a moment when the House of Luxembourg had reached the peak of its dynastic influence, holding simultaneously the Bohemian crown and the Holy Roman imperial dignity under Charles IV, Wenceslaus's own brother.

The thirty-year span of this issue reflects repeated restriking rather than continuous production, with weight and fineness fluctuating in response to regional debasement pressures common across the Low Countries in the 1360s–70s.