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1 Stiver 'Vuurijzer' - Philip the Handsome
| Issuer | Guelders, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1492 |
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| Weight | 2.6 g |
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| Reverse description | A floriate cross with elaborately decorated arms dominates the central field, its terminals adorned with floral or trefoil finials in the Gothic tradition. At the center of the cross, a small escutcheon bearing the arms of Gelderland — the rampant lion — is set within a quadrilobe frame, a distinctive compositional device common to Guelders issues of this period. The date 1492 is incorporated into the circumferential legend, making it one of the earlier dated coinage types from the Low Countries. The reverse legend, rendered in uncial Gothic script, runs between the beaded inner circle and the irregular outer rim. The overall design reflects the influence of Burgundian numismatic conventions adapted for the Duchy of Gelderland. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Philip the Handsome held nominal suzerainty over Guelders from 1492, but the duchy's duke, Charles of Egmond, spent the better part of three decades actively resisting Habsburg control — making coins struck in Philip's name from this territory a brief and politically fraught phenomenon. The "Vuurijzer" type takes its name from the firesteel, the device associated with the Burgundian Order of the Golden Fleece, which Philip inherited along with his sprawling territorial claims upon his father Maximilian's regency.
Charles of Egmond would eventually ally with France against the Habsburgs, rendering issues like this one a numismatic snapshot of a political arrangement that collapsed almost immediately after the dies were cut.