1/2 Liard 'Gigot' - Charles II Late type

The "gigot" designation — from the French word for a leg of mutton — refers to the shape of the fleur-de-lis punches used in the design, a naming convention that persisted across multiple Low Countries copper series. By the late 1690s, Brabant's coinage administration was operating under severe strain: the Nine Years' War had drained the Spanish Netherlands treasury, and copper fractionals like this were struck in part to address a chronic shortage of small change that paper instruments could not fill.

The Antwerp mint attribution in Vanhoudt's reference ties this late type to the final years of Charles II's rule before the succession crisis of 1700 ended Habsburg Spanish control of the duchy entirely.