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1 Liard - Philip V
| Issuer | Namur, County of |
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| Year | 1710 |
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| Weight | 3.84 g |
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| Obverse description | Central composite shield bearing the quartered arms of Philip V — comprising Castile, León, Aragón, Sicily, Granada, Austria, Burgundy, Brabant, and Flanders — surmounted by an ornate royal crown. The date 1710 is divided by the shield, with '17' to the left and '10' to the right. The peripheral legend runs in Latin around the shield within the coin's border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Philip V of Spain — whose claim to the throne triggered the War of the Spanish Succession — was simultaneously Duke of Namur when this liard was struck, though his actual authority over the Spanish Netherlands was being contested by Habsburg and Allied forces across the region. The 1710 date places this coin squarely in the grinding middle years of that conflict, with Namur having already been besieged and changed hands more than once in living memory. Local copper coinage continued largely as administrative habit.