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

Here is a Spitzgroschen of the German City State of Saxony (Zwickau mint) dated AD 1477:

Here is a Double Briquet from the same year and place as @pep's coin:

1475 -- Electorate of Saxony / Margraviate of Meissen / Zwickau Leipzig, 1 spitzgroschen:



Nothing more from me until 1471 (the 1473 hasn't arrived in the mail yet).

I have another double briquet from the Duchy of Brabant. This is my earliest dated coin, though I will enjoy watching over the remaining days, and will chime in with a couple of other coins from this period as we start to fizzle out.

That's good!

In the meantime, I should probably try to get a 2020-dated coin somehow, for the upcoming Sixth Edition (and take some photos of my coins dated 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2011... I know that I already have 2018, 2013, and 2012 photographed).

Really a lovely coin! A 1474 Brabant coin is on my list, and it would be nice to have a different denomination (I only have double briquets)

We've now seen coins issued in the name of Charles ("the Bold"), Duke of Burgundy, Brabant, Flanders, etc. for 1476 1475 and 1474.

Charles was a larger than life Renaissance figure who aspired to turn the duchy of Burgundy into a kingdom. https://www.britannica.com/biograph...-of-Burgundy
In the process, he attempted to acquire by purchase, war or treaty, many lands that were previously on the edges of "Burgundian" lands, despite the defensive maneuvers of Louis XI of France to thwart him.

In late 1473, Rene II had just been anointed Duke of Lorraine, territory which stood in the way of Charles uniting Burgundy with his holdings in Burgundian Netherlands to the north. War broke out in 1475, with Charles capturing Nancy, the capital of the duchy, in November, and then defending it against Rene, who counterattacked with a larger army of his own, and Swiss mercenaries.

Charles was both defeated and killed in the January 1477 Battle of Nancy, ending the era of Burgundy as a major European power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Nancy

Common Lorraine coins were not dated until 1512, so I will show an undated 1/2 plaque of Rene II of Lorraine (1473-1508). Rene introduced the reverse device of an arm with a sword emerging from clouds, with the latin legend "Fecit potentiam in brachio suo," or "He has shown strength with his arm," a direct reference to the Burgundian conflict

1473-1474 -- Sultanate of Juanpur, BI tanka:



- Rajnor 2737, Goron and Goenka J27

AH878/01/01 = AD1473/05/29
AH878/12/30 = AD1474/05/18

(year of maximum overlap = 1473)

Here is a Stuiver from the Netherlands City of Deventer dated AD 1472 (ANNO DOMIN +MCCCC LXXII).