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1 Stiver 'Vuurijzer' - Philip the Handsome, Regency Ghent Revolt
| Issuer | Flanders, County of |
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| Year | 1489 |
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| Currency | Groot (864-1506) |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Reverse description | A floriated long cross with decorative terminals dominates the central field, bearing a fleur-de-lis at the centre intersection. The four angles of the cross contain the Gothic letters G, A, N, and D, forming the abbreviation for GAND (Ghent), identifying the mint city. The whole is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, beyond which the legend runs in Gothic uncial script, the lettering struck in the characteristic hammered style of late medieval Flemish issues. The reverse design reflects the municipal and dynastic associations of this emergency coinage issued during the Ghent Revolt. |
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The "Vuurijzer" — the fire striker — takes its name from the emblem of the Order of the Golden Fleece, whose flint-and-steel motif Philip inherited from his Burgundian forebears. This piece was struck during one of the most turbulent episodes in Flemish civic history: the 1488–1492 revolt of Ghent against the regency council governing the young Philip, then barely ten years old. The city had imprisoned Maximilian of Habsburg himself in 1488, forcing concessions before releasing him — a humiliation the Habsburgs did not forget.
The Ghent mint produced issues under these emergency political conditions, with authority fragmented between civic factions and the nominal Habsburg regency.