Baldwin VIII ruled Flanders only from 1191 to 1194 before dying, with his son Baldwin IX continuing the same coinage types — a dynastic continuity that makes attribution between the two counts impossible on numismatic grounds alone. Baldwin IX would later become the first Latin Emperor of Constantinople following the Fourth Crusade's sack of the city in 1204, an irony given how modest his county's small silver fractions appear against that later ambition. The Ghent mint was among the most active in the county during this period, supplying petty coinage for a commercially aggressive trading region.
Baldwin VIII ruled Flanders only from 1191 to 1194 before dying, with his son Baldwin IX continuing the same coinage types — a dynastic continuity that makes attribution between the two counts impossible on numismatic grounds alone. Baldwin IX would later become the first Latin Emperor of Constantinople following the Fourth Crusade's sack of the city in 1204, an irony given how modest his county's small silver fractions appear against that later ambition. The Ghent mint was among the most active in the county during this period, supplying petty coinage for a commercially aggressive trading region.