Lion Florin - Philip the Handsome Ghent Revolt

The so-called Ghent Revolt coinage of 1488–1489 emerged directly from the city's imprisonment of the young Archduke Philip in February 1488 — a dramatic act of defiance by Ghent against the regency council governing the Habsburg Netherlands. The city held Philip for months, extracting political concessions, and struck coins in his name as a assertion of legitimate authority during the standoff. The florin references Philip as ruler while the issue itself was controlled entirely by a city in open rebellion against his guardians.

Delmonte's attribution places this among the rarer products of that brief, politically charged window before Philip was released in May 1489.