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1 Patagon - Philip IV
| Issuer | Artois, County of |
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| Year | 1623-1640 |
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| Weight | 28.25 g |
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| Obverse lettering | PHIL · IIII · D · G · HISP · ET · INDIAR · REX 16 27 (Translation: Philip IV, by the grace of God, King of the Spains and the Indies) |
| Reverse description | Elaborately quartered royal coat of arms of the Spanish Habsburgs, incorporating the castles of Castile, lions of León, and the complex heraldic quarterings of the Spanish monarchy, set within an ornate shield and surmounted by a royal crown. The shield is encircled by the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece, its pendant fleece visible at the base. The surrounding Latin legend identifies the issuer's titles as Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, and Count of Artois. |
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Artois remained under Habsburg authority through this period not by geography alone but by the terms of the 1598 Treaty of Vervins, which confirmed Spanish control over the county after decades of contested Franco-Spanish frontier warfare. Philip IV's administration struck patagons across the southern Netherlands as a practical monetary instrument for paying troops and settling commercial debts in a region that changed hands with uncomfortable frequency — Artois would fall definitively to France by the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659, making the entire Artesian patagon series a relatively compressed coinage history of under four decades.