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Noble - Philip the Good, 3d emission
| Issuer | Flanders, County of |
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| Year | 1428-1430 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | A crowned and armored figure of Philip the Good stands facing within a large sailing vessel, holding a sword in his right hand and a quartered shield of Burgundy-Flanders at his left side. The ship is depicted in fine detail with a decorated hull, visible rigging, and stylized waves below. Two smaller shields appear at the ship's fore and aft castles. The entire central design is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, with the Latin legend running continuously around the outer border between two beaded rims. |
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| Reverse description | An elaborate floriated cross pattée occupies the central field, its arms terminating in trefoils and enclosing a central floral boss. Four lions passant gardant and four crowns alternate in the quadrants formed by the cross arms, all within a tressure of arcs. A second inner beaded circle contains this composition, with the Latin Scriptural legend — a characteristic feature of the noble type — running continuously around the outer border between two beaded rims. |
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Philip the Good inherited Flanders in 1419 following the assassination of his father, John the Fearless, on the bridge at Montereau — a murder conducted in full view of the Dauphin's retinue. The third emission of his noble, dated to 1428–1430, falls squarely within his strategic pivot toward England, culminating in the Treaty of Arras negotiations that would eventually shift Burgundian allegiance in 1435. The noble itself was an English form, and Philip's continued striking of it was a deliberate monetary signal during years when his alliance with England remained commercially and politically useful.
The near-pure gold standard of .995 fineness is exceptional even by the period's top-tier issues.