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Gulden 'Philippusgoudgulden' - Philip the Handsome
| Issuer | Holland, County of |
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| Year | 1499-1506 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A short floriated cross with a central rosette at the intersection, occupying the field and dividing it into four quarters. The angles of the cross are filled with alternating fleurs-de-lis and imperial crowns in a regular pattern. The surrounding Latin legend opens with the mint mark and enumerates the ruler's full titulature, enclosed within a beaded or linear border typical of late-fifteenth-century Burgundian Netherlandish gold coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Philip the Handsome spent much of his reign navigating the competing financial demands of his Burgundian inheritance and his claims to Castile, and the mints of Holland were kept busy supplying coin for both military campaigns and the mercantile economy of the Low Countries. The Philippusgoudgulden was struck to the Burgundian gold standard established under his father Maximilian, tying Holland's coinage to a broader dynastic monetary framework rather than any purely local policy.
Philip died in 1506 at twenty-eight, cutting the issue short. His son Charles — later Charles V — would eventually consolidate these territories into something far larger than Philip ever governed.