Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
4 Mites - Ghent Revolt
| Issuer | Flanders, County of |
|---|---|
| Year | 1584 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Gulden (1506-1713) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
The Ghent Revolt of 1577–1584 produced a chaotic monetary environment in which the city's Calvinist republic issued emergency coinage to fund its resistance against Spanish Habsburg forces. This piece belongs to that final phase, struck as Parma's Army of Flanders tightened its siege. Ghent capitulated in September 1584, making the coin's production window extremely narrow — likely no more than a few months before the mint ceased operating under rebel authority.
Martiny's corpus remains the definitive reference for this siege coinage, and the G3#188 attribution places this firmly among the copper emergency issues of the revolt's last year.