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2 Stivers - Philip the Good
| Issuer | Hainaut, County of |
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| Year | 1466-1467 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays an ornate Gothic cross pattée at the center, its arms terminating in decorative fleur-de-lis flourishes, with a small central lozenge motif at the crossing. Four stylized lis or foliate ornaments fill the angles between the cross arms, set within a beaded inner circle. The surrounding field is clean and slightly concave, consistent with hammered flan production. A peripheral legend in uncial Gothic lettering runs clockwise between two beaded borders, bearing the devotional inscription invoking the blessed name of the Lord. The reverse composition is characteristic of Burgundian gros coinage of the third quarter of the fifteenth century. |
| Reverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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Philip the Good died in June 1467, making this a terminal issue of his reign — struck in the final months before his son Charles (later "the Bold") assumed control of the Burgundian Netherlands. Philip had ruled Hainaut since 1433, and the county's mint output in his last years reflected the broader monetary reforms he had pushed across his assembled territories, including efforts to standardize fineness across mints that had historically operated with considerable independence.