2 Sovereigns - Philip IV

Tournai's mint operated under Spanish Habsburg authority throughout this period, striking gold at a fineness that reflected the monetary reforms imposed across the Southern Netherlands following the disruptions of the Eighty Years' War. Philip IV inherited a currency system already under strain — the Northern provinces had broken away, trade routes were contested, and maintaining confidence in Flemish gold coinage was as much a political act as an economic one.

The fourteen-year span of this type is notably long for a gold denomination, suggesting policy stability that was rare for the period. Tournai itself sat uncomfortably close to the French border, and the city would fall to Louis XIV in 1667.