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1/3 Gold Lion - Philip the Good
| Issuer | Flanders, County of |
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| Year | 1454-1456 |
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| Currency | Groot (864-1506) |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Reverse description | The quartered heraldic shield of Burgundy, displaying the combined arms of the Burgundian ducal house, is placed at the centre within a four-lobed (quadrilobe) inner frame, consistent with the Gothic architectural framing found throughout Burgundian gold coinage of the period. The shield's quarters incorporate the arms of Burgundy ancient and modern, rendered with fine hatching and raised relief appropriate to the hammered technique. A firesteel emblem, the badge of the Order of the Golden Fleece, appears at the conclusion of the reverse legend, serving as a mint or control mark. The circumscription in Latin uncial characters carries the devotional inscription between two beaded borders. |
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Philip the Good issued this fraction during the final years of a reign defined by extraordinary ducal wealth and the machinery of the Order of the Golden Fleece. The 1/3 lion denomination sits in an awkward monetary niche — too small for major mercantile transactions, too precious for daily exchange — suggesting it served a specific accounting or payment function within the ducal household or court circles rather than general circulation. Surviving examples are genuinely scarce, and the Delmonte attribution itself acknowledges limited die documentation for this fractional type.