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1/2 Groat - Philip the Good
| Issuer | Duchy of Brabant |
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| Year | 1454-1467 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse lettering | ☩PhSⵓ DEI ⵓ GRA ⵓ DV AE BVRG ⵓZ ⵓ BRAB ⵓ (Translation: Philip, by God's grace Duke of Austria, Burgundy and Brabant) |
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| Mintage | ND (1454-1455) - Mechelen - 229,068 ND (1466-1467) - Leuven - 29,991 |
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Philip the Good spent much of the 1450s and 1460s consolidating monetary policy across his Burgundian territories, repeatedly issuing edicts to suppress the flood of debased foreign imitations circulating alongside legitimate Brabantine coinage. This half groat belongs to that defensive monetary moment — a period when the ducal mint at Leuven or Mechelen was as much an instrument of political control as a production facility.
The billon fineness reflects deliberate policy, not negligence. Philip's moneyers were threading a needle between keeping coins attractive enough to circulate and cheap enough to produce at profit.