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Gold Guilder - Charles V / Philip II
| Uitgever | Besançon, Free imperial city of |
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| Jaar | 1541-1580 |
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| Waarde | 1 Gold Guilder or Florin (1.5) |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Full-length facing effigy of Emperor Charles V, crowned and clad in armor, standing in a frontal pose. The emperor holds an orb in his left hand and an upraised sword in his right. The figure is rendered in the late Gothic hammered style typical of imperial Free City coinage. The legend encircles the effigy within a beaded border, with the inscription identifying the issuing authority as Charles V, Emperor. |
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| Rand | Plain |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
Besançon occupied a peculiar constitutional position throughout this period — nominally a free imperial city under Habsburg suzerainty, yet fiercely protective of its municipal autonomy against both French encroachment and direct imperial absorption. The city struck in the names of Charles V and later Philip II not merely as a formality but as an active assertion of that status, exploiting the right to mint as proof of imperial recognition. When Charles abdicated in 1556, Besançon continued issuing under Philip's name without interruption, a quiet demonstration that the city's privileges transferred with the dynasty rather than the man.
The forty-year span of this type makes die identification particularly valuable for dating individual specimens.