Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Gulden 'Saint Philip' - Philip the Handsome
| Issuer | Holland, County of |
|---|---|
| Year | 1496-1499 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | 3.4 g |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Standing full-length figure of Saint Philip, nimbate, facing forward in hieratic pose at center of the field. The saint holds a cross-tipped staff in his right hand and the Gospels in his left, rendered in the late Gothic style characteristic of Burgundian-Netherlandish coinage. The surrounding legend is set between two beaded or linear borders, written in uncial Latin characters. The overall composition reflects the devotional imagery common to Burgundian gold coinage of the late fifteenth century. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Philip the Handsome's gulden was struck under his authority as Count of Holland during the period when the Burgundian Netherlands were navigating the fraught regency following Maximilian I's release from Bruges captivity in 1488. Philip, barely a teenager when he assumed nominal rule, was surrounded by competing Flemish and Habsburg factions each attempting to shape monetary policy in their favor. The Saint Philip type reflects an assertion of Burgundian dynastic identity at a moment when that identity was genuinely contested.
Philip died in Castile in 1506 at age 28, making his entire coinage output compressed into roughly a decade of active rule.