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Florin 'Saint Philip' - Philip the Handsome
| Issuer | Namur, County of |
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| Year | 1499 |
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| Weight | 3.3 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Reverse description | Central ornate cross pattée with fleurs-de-lis at the terminals, decorated with elaborate Gothic tracery in the cross's centre, set within a beaded inner circle. In each of the four quarters formed by the cross arms, small heraldic charges appear — crowns and lions — referencing the multiple lordships of Philip the Handsome. The surrounding legend, rendered in Gothic uncial lettering, identifies the issuer as Philip by God's grace Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, and Count of Namur. An outer beaded border frames the entire design. The die work is typical of the late medieval Burgundian monetary tradition, combining Gothic ornamental elements with dynastic heraldic imagery. |
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Philip the Handsome — Duke of Burgundy, King of Castile, and father of Charles V — was Count of Namur from 1486 until his death in 1506, and this florin was struck during his increasingly turbulent efforts to consolidate Habsburger control over the Low Countries against persistent Flemish resistance. The Saint Philip type follows the florin à l'écu convention common to the Burgundian Netherlands but was struck under Namur's own comital authority, giving it a distinct cataloguing lineage from the better-known Flemish and Brabantine issues of the same reign.
Philip died in Burgos at thirty-eight, almost certainly from typhoid fever, just seven years after this coin was minted.