v52_0972 - SPANISH NETHERLANDS - COUNTY OF FLANDERS - PHILIP THE HANDSOME OR THE FAIR Double briquet d'argent

SPANISH NETHERLANDS - COUNTY OF FLANDERS - PHILIP THE HANDSOME OR THE FAIR Double briquet d argent XF

MONNAIES 52 (2012)
Starting price : 140.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
Realised price : 195.00 €
Number of bids : 4
Maximum bid : 195.00 €

Type : Double briquet d'argent

Date: 1489-1490

Mint name / Town : Gand

Metal : silver

Millesimal fineness : 798 ‰

Diameter : 27,5 mm

Orientation dies : 10 h.

Weight : 2,83 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Ce double briquet est frappé sur un flan irrégulier et présente des faiblesses de frappe. Exemplaire recouvert d’une légère patine grise. Tréflage sous le trait d’exergue

Catalogue references :

Bd.2282 (4 f.) - GH.146

Obverse

Obverse legend : + PHS* DEI* GRA* DV[X*] B'* COMES* FL, (PONCTUATION PAR SIMPLE ROSE).

Obverse description : Deux lions assis face à face sur un trait d'exergue ; au-dessus, un briquet ; à l'exergue GAnDA.

Reverse

Reverse legend : + FIA[T]* PAX* IN* VIRT[V]TE* TVA* ET* H*, (PONCTUATION PAR SIMPLE TRÈFLE).

Reverse description : Écu au lion brochant sur une croix feuillue et fleuronnée.

Historical background

SPANISH NETHERLANDS - COUNTY OF FLANDERS - 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 the year 1494. Artois and Franche-Comté were returned to Maximilien in 1493 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. Mad Joan, the story goes, earned her nickname there. France's deadliest enemy, Charles V, would grow up on "an empire where the sun never sets".