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Gold Rider - Philip III
| Issuer | Burgundy, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1419-1467 |
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| Weight | 3.57 g |
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| Reverse description | Elaborate quartered coat of arms of the Duchy of Burgundy, supported by two lions rampant, displayed on a floriated Gothic cross with trefoil terminals; the shields bear the arms of Burgundy ancient, Burgundy modern, Brabant, and Flanders. Decorative floral ornaments fill the angles between the arms of the cross. The Latin religious legend runs continuously around the outer field within a beaded border. |
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| Reverse lettering | SIT NOMEN DOMINI BENEDICTVM MEI |
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Philip III — "the Good" — inherited Burgundy in 1419 following the assassination of his father John the Fearless on the bridge at Montereau, a murder in which the Dauphin's faction was directly implicated. The resulting Treaty of Troyes the following year aligned Burgundy firmly with England against France, and Philip's mints operated across an unusually sprawling territorial patchwork: Flanders, Brabant, Namur, Holland, and the duchy proper, among others. Attributing specific strikes of this type to individual mints remains a persistent challenge for catalogers.
Philip issued monetary ordinances repeatedly across his long reign in attempts to stabilize exchange rates between his heterogeneous territories.