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Live starting : Type : Demi-écu philippe, contremarque lion de hollande
Date: 15[...]
Mint name / Town : Tournai
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 833 ‰
Diameter : 31,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 13,89 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Usure importante
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : .PHS. D: G. HISP. Z. REX. D. TORN., (LÉGENDE COMMENÇANT À 7 HEURES).
Obverse description : Buste cuirassé de Philippe II à gauche ; au-dessous 9 (tour) 7.
Obverse translation : (Philippe, par la grâce de Dieu, roi d’Espagne, seigneur de Tournai).
Reverse
Reverse legend : .DOMINVS. MIHI[. A]DIVTOR[.].
Reverse description : Écu couronné écartelé, au 1 contre-écartelé en 1 et 4 de Castille, en 2 et 3 de Léon, au 2 mi-parti d'Aragon et de Sicile, enté en pointe de Grenade, sur le tout de Portugal ; au 3 d'Autriche moderne soutenu de Bourgogne ancien, au 4 de Bourgogne moderne soutenu de Brabant, sur le tout mi-parti de Flandre et de Tyrol et de Portugal ; écu brochant sur une croix de saint André formée de deux bâtons noueux ; appendu à la base de l'écu, le mouton de l'Ordre de la Toison d'Or ; de part et d'autre un briquet sur des flammèches.
Reverse translation : (Le Seigneur est mon aide).
Historical background
SPANISH NETHERLANDS - TOURNAI - PHILIP II OF SPAIN
(25/10/1555-13/09/1598)
Philip II (1527-1598) is the son of Charles V and Isabella of Portugal. In 1555, he succeeded in the Spanish Netherlands to his father who abdicated in his favor in 1556, for Spain and America. He successively married Marie of Portugal (1527-1545), then his cousin Marie Tudor (1516-1558), Queen of England, in 1560 Elisabeth of France (1545-1568) and finally Anne of Austria (1549-1580). He fights against the France of Henri II, then of Henri IV. He supports the Counter-Reformation. He won the victory of Lepanto in 1571, died in 1598 and his son Philippe succeeded him.
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