Live auction - fwo_433183 - COUNTY OF HOLLANDE - PHILIPPE THE HANDSOME Florin d’or au saint Philippe n.d. Dordrecht

COUNTY OF HOLLANDE - PHILIPPE THE HANDSOME Florin d’or au saint Philippe n.d. Dordrecht VF

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Estimate :	900 €
Price :	450 €
Maximum bid :	450 €
End of the sale :	12 September 2017 17:54:51
bidders :	1 bidder

Type : Florin d’or au saint Philippe

Date: (1500-1506)

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Dordrecht

Quantity minted : -

Metal : gold

Millesimal fineness : 663 ‰

Diameter : 24 mm

Orientation dies : 1 h.

Weight : 2,88 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire bien centré sur un petit flan régulier. Usure régulière de circulation

Catalogue references :

AMVB146 - Del.86 - GH.115-1b - F.57 p.137 - AMVBH.141

Obverse

Obverse legend : + PHS+ DEI+ GRA+ ARCHID'+ AVSTRIE+ DVX+ BVRG'+ (MAIN), (PONCTUATION PAR DEUX CROISETTES SUPERPOSÉES).

Obverse description : Croix fleuronnée et fleurdelisée, avec quadrilobe évidé en cœur contenant un lion, cantonnée aux 1 et 4 d'un lis, aux 2 et 3 d'une couronne.

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

Reverse

Reverse legend : +S'+ PH'E+ INTERCED - [P]RO+ NOBIS - + - (MAIN)+, (PONCTUATION PAR SIMPLE CROISETTE OU PAR DEUX CROISETTES SUPERPOSÉES).

Reverse description : Saint Philippe debout, drapé, dont la tête nimbée coupe la légende en haut, tenant une longue croix de la main droite, les Évangiles de la main gauche ; devant lui un 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.

Reverse translation : (Saint Philippe, intercède en notre faveur).

Historical background

COUNTY OF HOLLANDE - PHILIPPE THE HANDSOME

(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".