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1 Stiver 'Vuurijzer' - Charles the Bold
| Issuer | Flanders, County of |
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| Year | 1474-1475 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | ✠ KAROLVS ⁑ DEI ⁑ GRA ⁑ DVX ⁑ BVRG ⁑ CO ⁑ F (Translation: Charles, by the grace of God, Duke of Burgundy and Count of Flanders) |
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| Reverse lettering | ✠ ⁑ BENEDIC ⁑ HEREDITATI ⁑ TVE (Translation: Blessed by your heritage) |
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Charles the Bold's monetary reforms of the early 1470s attempted to rationalize a patchwork of denominations across his Burgundian territories, and this billon stiver was part of that effort — issued from the Ghent mint during a period when Charles was simultaneously draining his treasury to fund campaigns against the Swiss Confederation. The nickname "Vuurijzer" (fire iron) derives from the flint-and-steel badge of the Burgundian Order of the Golden Fleece, a heraldic device Charles deployed aggressively across his coinage as a unifying dynastic statement.
Charles was dead at Nancy by January 1477, less than two years after this issue.