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Guilder - Philip the Handsome 2d Type

Issuer Flanders, County of
Year 1496-1499
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Value 1 Florin (Guilder)
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Obverse script Latin (uncial)
Obverse lettering S ⁑ PHILIP ⁑ INTERDEDE ⁑ PRO ⁑ NOBIS
(Translation: Saint Philip, intercede for us.)
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Philip the Handsome's second guilder type for Flanders was issued during a period when he was consolidating Burgundian Netherlands authority while simultaneously navigating the political fallout of his father Maximilian I's regency disputes. The type revision itself likely reflects monetary ordinances issued between 1496 and 1499 as Philip aligned Flemish gold coinage more closely with broader Habsburg currency policy ahead of his Spanish dynastic ambitions.

Delmonte G#507 is among the scarcer Philip guilder varieties. Relatively few examples surface in auction, and those that do frequently show the characteristic soft strike on the inner legend common to Bruges workshop production of this period.

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