Philip the Good struck the klinkaart — so named for the sharp ringing sound it made when dropped on a hard surface — as part of a broader monetary reform intended to stabilize Flemish coinage after decades of debasement under his predecessors. The half-ecu denomination served exchange needs between the larger gold issues and the silver coinage circulating in the busy commercial markets of Bruges and Ghent.
Delmonte's G#486 places this squarely among the first years of Philip's long reign, before the monetary ordinances of the 1430s further reorganized Burgundian Netherlandish coinage.
Philip the Good struck the klinkaart — so named for the sharp ringing sound it made when dropped on a hard surface — as part of a broader monetary reform intended to stabilize Flemish coinage after decades of debasement under his predecessors. The half-ecu denomination served exchange needs between the larger gold issues and the silver coinage circulating in the busy commercial markets of Bruges and Ghent.
Delmonte's G#486 places this squarely among the first years of Philip's long reign, before the monetary ordinances of the 1430s further reorganized Burgundian Netherlandish coinage.