bfe_290130 - SPANISH NETHERLANDS - COUNTY OF NAMUR - PHILIP THE HANDSOME OR THE FAIR Patard

SPANISH NETHERLANDS - COUNTY OF NAMUR - PHILIP THE HANDSOME OR THE FAIR Patard XF

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Type : Patard

Date: 1497-1499

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Namur

Metal : silver

Millesimal fineness : 319 ‰

Diameter : 28,5 mm

Orientation dies : 3 h.

Weight : 2,71 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Ce patard est frappé sur un flan irrégulier et assez large présentant quelques faiblesses de frappe. La croix du revers apparaît en négatif au droit

Catalogue references :

Bd.- - GH.112-7

Obverse

Obverse legend : PHS* ARCHID* AVST* DVX* BG[*] CO* NA, (PONCTUATION PAR SIMPLE ÉTOILE).

Obverse description : Écu d’Autriche-Bourgogne sous une couronne coupant la légende.

Obverse translation : (Philippe, archiduc d'Autriche, duc de Bourgogne et comte de Namur).

Reverse

Reverse legend : SIT* NO-MEN* - DNI* BE-NED[ICTV].

Reverse description : Croix fleuronnée, coupant la légende, portant en cœur un lis dans un losange évidé ; la croix repose sur un quadrilobe orné et cantonné de trèfles.

Reverse translation : (Béni soit le nom du Seigneur).

Commentary

Ce type de patard fut frappé pour le Brabant, la Flandre, la Hollande et le comté de Namur.

Historical background

SPANISH NETHERLANDS - COUNTY OF NAMUR - 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".