How Far Back Can We Go? Fifth Edition! Ended At 1461 Waiting On 1460 C. E. (A. H. 864)

Here is a Kreutzer from the Austrian Duchy of Vienna dated AD 1484:

Right around Christmastime!


In the meanwhile, here is another Austrian Kreutzer--except this one dates to AD 1483 and was minted in Graz:

That Half Schwertgroschen is in super condition @pep!

Here is mine:

Looking good!

I also recently picked up a coin from the Duchy of Pomerania (1496). Note that the 1473 from Juanpur Sultinate still hasn't arrived in the mail.

Very nice one! I think we have a few more on tap over the next week.

The coin was issued during the reign of Marie of Burgundy as Duchess of Burgundy, Brabant & Limbourg. Marie inherited the crown from her father, Charles the Bold, who died in battle against Rene II of Lorraine, at the battle of Nancy in January 1477 (an intersection of two of my collecting themes!). Just turned 20, Marie was as yet unmarried, as her father had used her marriageworthiness as a tool for political leverage. First forced to cede certain liberties to the Low Country states to gain their support (Brabant, Flanders, Holland), then fending off pressure to marry into the French royal family, she married Maximilian, Archduke of Austria later in 1477, paving the way for a Burgundy-Hapsburg union in the figure of her son Philip, who was born 11 months later.
She was the sixth and last ruler of the Low Countries from House of Burgundy. She died tragically from a fall from her horse while hunting in 1482.
I could not find a painting of her from life, (though I assume one exists), but this one is from 1490, so the painter may have seen an image painted while she was still alive

Thx @gallienus for your kind words. Also, very nice job @tdz adding some nice color commentary to this coin. The history helps to provide useful context for the coins.

The weight of this coin is 3.01 g--about half your estimate @gallienus. Likewise, the piece listed in Levinson is 3.06 g. During the last 538 years, some enterprising soul shaved a bit of the silver off of the edge from 9-11 o'clock on the obverse so mine might have started a little heavy, but not 2x.