County Of Holland Coins Of Albert Of Bavaria, 1391 And 1393 (Trigger Warning: Ugly Coins!)

On the "How Far Back" 6th edition thread, @j1m analyzed the tough dates and mentioned that the 1390s are pretty tough except for Islamic coins.

As it turns out, Albert of Bavaria, who was Count of Holland from 1388-1404 liked to change up his coins often, and had at least 5 "emissions" three of which in the 1390s, changing the design each time. As these new coinages were coming every other year (1389, 1391, 1393, 1395 etc.) the window is at most two years for each type, but the Dutch auction houses tend to assign the coins to the year of the emission, probably for reasons elaborated on by erafjel once upon a time (the sovereign needed the seigniorgae immediately, the merchants pressured the sovereign to make more coin available quickly, etc.).

I recently picked up coins from the 1391 and 1393 emissions. They are not beautiful, but certainly speak to their active use (and/or burial in the case of the second one).

So, here is the 1 groot coin, emission of 1391, Van der Chijs Vol 6, 7.5:



And the 1/4 groot, emission of 1393, Van der Chijs Vol. 6, 8.16



More information on these two coins, and others from 1390s:
1391 1 groot: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces178566.html
1393 1/4 gr https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces358279.html
1393 1 groot: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces358160.html
1395 1/4 gr https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces358276.html

For the OFEY crowd, nobody is going to find one of the large 1 groot coins while coin roll hunting, but it's occurred to me that the 1/4 groot pieces, which are always in poor condition, just might turn up in a medieval Low Countries lot.