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Gulden 'Philippusgoudgulden' - Philip the Handsome Long cross
| Issuer | Holland, County of |
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| Year | 1499-1506 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | A short floriated cross with a rosette at its center occupies the full field, its arms terminating in decorative foliations. The four angles of the cross are filled with alternating fleur-de-lis and crowns, arranged in a regular pattern. The circumferential legend, separated from the design by an inner circle, runs continuously around the field in Gothic uncial lettering. The overall design is symmetrical and typical of Burgundian Netherlandish gold coinage of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Philip the Handsome inherited the Low Countries through his mother Mary of Burgundy and ruled Holland as a Habsburg archduke while simultaneously pressing his claim to Castile — a dynastic juggling act that kept his court perpetually mobile and his mints perpetually busy. The Philippusgoudgulden was struck to a slightly debased gold standard compared to the Rhenish gulden it competed with commercially, a deliberate policy to keep coin in circulation rather than hoarded or melted.
The long cross reverse type distinguishes this from the earlier short cross variant catalogued separately in Delmonte.