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1 Stiver - Charles II
| Issuer | County of Flanders |
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| Year | 1679-1680 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1506-1713) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 1679 - (fr) Atelier: Bruges - 1,503,564 1680 - (fr) Atelier: Bruges - |
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Charles II of Spain, who held the County of Flanders as part of the Spanish Netherlands inheritance, was a ruler so physically and mentally debilitated by generations of Habsburg inbreeding that effective governance fell almost entirely to a succession of governors-general in Brussels. The Flemish mints operated with considerable autonomy during his reign, and the billon stiver issues of 1679–1680 fall within a period of monetary retrenchment following the Treaty of Nijmegen, which had ceded the Franche-Comté and numerous Flemish border towns to Louis XIV just the year prior.
The Bruges mint — indicated by the BG suffix in the Vanhoudt reference — struck this type alongside Ghent and Antwerp, making attribution to a specific facility essential for serious cataloging.