1 Patagon - Charles II Type II

Charles II of Spain was by 1694 genuinely incapable of governing, and the administration of the Spanish Netherlands — including Flanders — had long since devolved to a succession of governors-general operating under Madrid's increasingly erratic instructions. These final patagon issues from his reign were struck against a backdrop of the Nine Years' War, during which French forces under Louis XIV occupied portions of Flanders itself. The mint at Bruges continued operating through the disruption, though output was intermittent.

The Type II designation distinguishes this from earlier Charles II patagons by specific die characteristics documented by Vanhoudt. Charles died in 1700 without an heir, his death triggering the War of the Spanish Succession and ending the entire Spanish Netherlands coinage tradition within a generation.