2 Stivers - Philip the Handsome

Philip the Handsome held nominal authority over Guelders during these years, but the duchy was effectively governed by his father Maximilian of Habsburg while Philip was still a child. The coin was struck during one of the most contested periods in Guelders' history — the duchy was fighting to preserve autonomy against Burgundian-Habsburg absorption, a struggle that would drag on until Charles of Egmond finally expelled the Habsburgs in 1492.

The vdCh 2#14.2 reference places this among the documented stiver issues catalogued by Van der Chijs, whose mid-nineteenth-century work on Low Countries coinage remains the foundational attribution for this series.