Large Gold Crown - Albert of Bavaria

Albert of Bavaria ruled Hainaut as count from 1389 until his death in 1404, administering the county through a period of intense dynastic maneuvering among the Valois, Wittelsbach, and Burgundian houses. The large gold crown type belongs to a broader Franco-Flemish monetary tradition that proliferated across the Low Countries in the late fourteenth century as regional lords competed to attract trade and assert fiscal independence from neighboring powers.

Albert's Bavarian Wittelsbach lineage, combined with his control over Hainaut, Holland, and Zeeland simultaneously, gave these issues an unusually wide potential circulation range for a county-level emission.