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Florin 'Saint Philip'- Philip the Handsome 3d type
| Issuer | Brabant, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1500-1506 |
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| Value | 1 Florin (Guilder) (40) |
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| Obverse description | Half-length standing figure of Saint Philip the Apostle, depicted in the Gothic manner, holding the Gospels in his left hand and a cross staff in his right hand, his figure resting against a heraldic shield quartering the arms of Austria-Burgundy-Brabant. The saint is rendered in fine hammered relief against a plain field, with the surrounding legend in uncial characters separated by stops. |
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| Reverse description | Floriate double cross, elaborately ornamented, with alternating crowns and fleurs-de-lis placed in the four angles formed by the arms of the cross. The design is enclosed within a polylobe inner circle, with the circumferential legend in uncial characters running continuously around the periphery of the coin, separated by stops. |
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Philip the Handsome's administration of the Low Countries operated under persistent financial strain from his Castilian ambitions and the costs of maintaining his claim to the Spanish throne through Isabella. The florin series bearing his name cycled through design revisions partly in response to debasement pressures across the Burgundian monetary system — the .663 fineness of this third type reflects a gradual erosion from the purer Burgundian gold standards of the preceding generation.
Philip died in 1506 at twenty-eight, cutting this type's production window to roughly six years. The multiple Witte references indicate known die distinctions within the type.