Luxembourg Florin - John the Baptist, 1419 – 1424

Florin - John the Baptist from Luxembourg. Issued from 1419 to 1424. Struck in Gold. Measures 0 mm and weighs 3.39 g.

Obverse

St. Peter standing in front, holding a book in his left hand and a large key on the right, at the knees a coat of arms of Bavaria. Surrounded by the legend between an indoor girdle lined with a net and an external girdle. The saint divides up and down the legend and the inner girdle, as well as the net. (Jean, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria)

Reverse

In a quadrilobe with a double rib, the quarterly shield of Bavaria-Palatinate, surrounded by four shields. At the top the shield with the empirial eagle rounded so as to simulate the wheel of Mainz, to the right the shield of Palatinate, to the left of Bavaria and at the bottom of Luxembourg, surrounded by the legend between two pearled circles. (New currency of Luxembourg)