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Gulden 'Saint Philip' - Philip the Handsome
| Issuer | Holland, County of |
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| Year | 1496-1499 |
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| Value | Florin (Gulden) |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Reverse description | A floriated cross occupies the center of the field, with a small escutcheon bearing the lion of Holland at its intersection. The four angles of the cross are filled with heraldic shields arranged in sequence: Burgundy, Holland, Burgundy, and Austria, reflecting the dynastic claims of Philip the Handsome. The legend, which commences with a crown mark, runs between inner and outer borders in uncial Latin. The design follows the standard heraldic cross type employed on Burgundian gold gulden of the period. |
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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.