Maille - Philip the Handsome

Philip the Handsome's administration of the Low Countries was characterised by persistent fiscal pressure, and the County of Namur's copper fractional issues of this period reflect a chronic shortage of small-denomination currency in provincial circulation. Philip died in 1506 in Castile, just two years after this minting window closed, leaving several of his monetary reforms incomplete. The County's copper output during his tenure was tightly controlled by the Namur mint under Habsburg oversight — a relatively recent imposition that local authorities had not fully absorbed.