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Florin - Mary of Burgundy
| Issuer | Brabant, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1477-1482 |
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| Weight | 3.40 g |
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| Obverse description | Full-length frontal figure of Saint Andrew, nimbed and draped in flowing robes, stands in the field bearing his distinctive saltire cross, the arms of which extend diagonally across the coin. The saint's head is turned slightly in three-quarter view, with the nimbus rendered in relief above. The figure is rendered in the Gothic hammered style characteristic of late 15th-century Brabantine coinage, with fine drapery folds visible across the garment. The circular legend in uncial Latin runs along the inner border, flanked by a beaded inner circle. |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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Mary inherited Burgundy in 1477 at age nineteen, days after her father Charles the Bold was killed at Nancy — leaving her with an empty treasury, a fractured administration, and immediate military pressure from Louis XI of France moving to absorb the duchy. To secure Flemish and Brabantine military support against France, she was effectively forced to sign the Groot Privilege in February 1477, surrendering substantial ducal authority to the provincial estates. These florins were struck under that constrained sovereignty, with the Brabant mint operating under conditions negotiated partly by the estates themselves.
Her reign ended abruptly in 1482 when she died from a riding accident, aged twenty-five.