v08_1301 - BURGUNDIAN NETHERLANDS - DUCHY OF BRABANT - PHILIP THE HANDSOME OR THE FAIR Toison d'argent 1498 Anvers

BURGUNDIAN NETHERLANDS - DUCHY OF BRABANT - PHILIP THE HANDSOME OR THE FAIR Toison d argent 1498 Anvers XF

MONNAIES 8 (2000)
Starting price : 152.45 €
Estimate : 274.41 €
Realised price : 182.94 €

Type : Toison d'argent

Date: 1498

Mint name / Town : Anvers

Metal : silver

Millesimal fineness : 378 ‰

Diameter : 30 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 3,34 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Monnaie frappée sur un flan large. Léger décentrage au droit et au revers. Patine grise de collection

Catalogue references :

W.605 - GH.110-1 - NP.7/85 - AMVBH.136

Obverse

Obverse legend : * PH'S* DEI* GRA* ARCHID* AVSTE* DVX* BG'* B, (PONCTUATION PAR SIMPLE ÉTOILE À CINQ RAIS).

Obverse description : Écu couronné écartelé au 1 d'Autriche, au 2 de Bourgogne moderne, au 3 de Bourgogne ancien, au 4 de Brabant, sur le tout de Flandre, brochant sur une croix fleuronnée.

Obverse translation : (Philippe, par la grâce de Dieu, archiduc d'Autriche, duc de Bourgogne et de Brabant).

Reverse

Reverse legend : (LION) INICIVM* SAPIENCE* TIMOR* DOMINI* ANNO* 1498, (PONCTUATION PAR SIMPLE ÉTOILE À CINQ RAIS).

Reverse description : Mouton de l'Ordre de la Toison d'Or appendu à deux briquets.

Reverse translation : (La crainte du Seigneur est le début de la sagesse, année 1498).

Historical background

BURGUNDIAN NETHERLANDS - DUCHY OF BRABANT - PHILIP THE HANDSOME OR THE FAIR

(1482-1506)

Philippe (1478-1506), Duke of Burgundy, had inherited Flanders from his mother Marie de Bourgogne, who died in 1482. It was his father, Maximilian of Austria, who administered his possessions until 1494. Artois and Franche-Comté were returned in 1493 to Maximilien because Charles VIII had not married his daughter Marguerite, but Anne of Brittany. Philip married Jeanne la Folle (1479-1555), the daughter of the Catholic kings Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon, in 1496. From this union, was born Charles V in 1500 and Ferdinand I in 1503. Philippe became king of Spain in 1504, but died in 1506. Joan the "Mad", says the story, earned her nickname there. France's deadliest enemy, Charles V, would grow up on "an Empire where the sun never sets".