Florin - Philip I the Handsome

Philip I — Philip the Handsome — held Luxembourg as part of his inherited Burgundian Netherlands, and by 1502 was deep in the political maneuvering that would bring him briefly to the Castilian throne. This florin was struck under that Burgundian monetary framework, which maintained Rhenish weight standards to keep the coinage acceptable across the fragmented imperial market. Philip died in 1506, four years after this issue, likely from typhoid fever at twenty-eight — ending a reign whose monetary ambitions outlasted him only marginally. Delmonte G#395 is among the scarcer Luxembourg gold attributions from his administration.