Gros - John the Baptist 1st type

Issued under John the Blind's successors during a period when Luxembourg's coinage was caught between competing monetary zones — the Rhenish system to the east and the French-influenced Low Countries to the west — this gros reflects the county's chronic difficulty maintaining a stable silver standard. The denomination itself was already archaic by 1419, a deliberate choice to invoke the weight and trust of an earlier monetary tradition that the issuing authority could no longer fully back.