2 Stivers - Philip the Handsome, Regency

Philip the Handsome was fourteen years old in 1488, his regency governed by Maximilian of Austria following the death of Mary of Burgundy in 1482. Guelders was nominally under Habsburg suzerainty during this period, though the duchy spent much of the late fifteenth century actively resisting it — this coinage was struck under an authority that would spend the next half-century in near-continuous conflict with the very house whose ward's name it bore.

The Levinson III-193 reference places this among a well-documented but genuinely scarce series; van der Chijs's classification remains the foundational typology for Guelders coinage of this decade.