Philip the Handsome — Duke of Burgundy and nominal lord of the Low Countries — spent much of his short adult life either fighting his own Estates for revenue or sailing to Castile to press his wife Joanna's inheritance claim. This half florin belongs to his Brabantine coinage of around 1500, a period when Philip was burning through coin to fund the diplomacy and military posturing surrounding the Castilian succession. He would reach Castile twice; the second voyage killed him in 1506, aged 28.
The Delmonte G#89 attribution places this firmly within the gold devotional-saint series that served as both currency and dynastic propaganda across the Burgundian Netherlands.
Philip the Handsome — Duke of Burgundy and nominal lord of the Low Countries — spent much of his short adult life either fighting his own Estates for revenue or sailing to Castile to press his wife Joanna's inheritance claim. This half florin belongs to his Brabantine coinage of around 1500, a period when Philip was burning through coin to fund the diplomacy and military posturing surrounding the Castilian succession. He would reach Castile twice; the second voyage killed him in 1506, aged 28.
The Delmonte G#89 attribution places this firmly within the gold devotional-saint series that served as both currency and dynastic propaganda across the Burgundian Netherlands.