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1/2 Patagon - Philip IV
| Issuer | Flanders, County of |
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| Year | 1622-1665 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1506-1713) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central device consists of a large, intricately detailed crowned coat of arms of the Spanish Habsburgs, incorporating the quartered arms of Castile, León, Aragon, Sicily, Austria, Burgundy, Brabant, Flanders, and Tyrol, with a small central inescutcheon. The shield is encircled by the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece, from which the Golden Fleece pendant hangs at the base. The entire composition is surmounted by an imperial crown of elaborate form. The circumferential Latin legend, abbreviating Philip IV's full territorial titles, runs within a beaded border around the periphery of the flan. |
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The half patagon was a workhorse of Spanish Netherlands commerce, circulating across the Habsburg-controlled provinces at a time when Flanders was perpetually hemorrhaging revenue to fund the Thirty Years' War. Philip IV's reign over the Low Countries was administered almost entirely through Brussels viceroys — the king himself never set foot in the region — and the mint output at Bruges reflected the chronic funding crises of the 1620s and 1630s more than any deliberate monetary policy.
The extended date range across four decades means this type spans multiple mint masters and shows considerable die variation documented by Vanhoudt. Collectors working the series distinguish issues by the mint master's privy marks, which shifted several times between 1622 and 1665.