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Ducat - Philip the Handsome, Regency
| Issuer | Holland, County of |
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| Year | 1487 |
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| Value | 1 Ducat (96) |
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| Reverse description | Full-length figure of Saint Andrew standing facing, clad in long robes, holding a book in his left hand and turning his head slightly to the right. Beneath his feet is a branched or budded cross, the symbol of his martyrdom. The saint is depicted in a hieratic, late-Gothic style typical of Burgundian Low Countries coinage of the period. A Latin legend in Gothic lettering surrounds the figure within a beaded border, with the date 1487 incorporated at the close of the inscription. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Philip the Handsome was just nine years old in 1487, and the Low Countries were governed in his name by regency councils jostling for influence following the death of Mary of Burgundy in 1482. The coinage of this period reflects that administrative complexity — ducats struck under his name carried the weight of a Burgundian inheritance disputed by the Habsburgs, the French crown, and the Flemish estates simultaneously.
Holland's gold output in this decade closely tracked the duchy-wide standardization pushed by Maximilian I, Philip's father, who was simultaneously fighting to hold the Burgundian inheritance together. The Delmonte G#751 attribution places this firmly within that regency series.