Groschen - Martin V

Martin V's election at the Council of Constance in 1417 ended nearly forty years of schism during which rival claimants had fragmented papal finances and administration. The Comtat Venaissin — the papal enclave in Provence, distinct from Avignon itself — resumed stable coinage under his authority almost immediately, this groschen belonging to the earliest phase of that reconsolidation. Billon issues from the Comtat are routinely underrepresented in major collections; the territory's mint output was modest and regionally absorbed, leaving few pieces in the broader numismatic record.