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⅔ Gold Lion - Philip the Good
| Issuer | Flanders, County of |
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| Year | 1454-1455 |
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| Value | ⅔ Gold Lion |
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| Obverse lettering | PHS ⁑ DEI ⁑ G ⁑ DVX ⁑ BVRG` ⁑ CO ⁑ FLAND` (Translation: Philip, by God`s grace Duke of Burgundy Count of Flanders) |
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| Reverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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Philip the Good struck this fractional lion issue during a period when his Flemish mints were under pressure to produce smaller-denomination gold to facilitate trade at the great cloth fairs of Bruges and Ghent. The two-thirds denomination was an unusual concession to commercial practicality — the full lion was simply too valuable for many routine mercantile transactions.
The .958 fineness places it among the purest gold coinages of fifteenth-century northern Europe, a deliberate policy by Philip to maintain Burgundian monetary credibility against competing Rhenish and English issues flooding Flemish markets.