Gulden 'Philippusgoudgulden' - Philip the Handsome Long cross

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.