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!
1/2 Patagon - Philip IV
| Issuer | County of Burgundy (French States) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1625-1638 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Livre |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| 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 | Central device composed of an elaborate cross of Burgundy (saltire) formed by two crossed, fire-steeled and knotted branches, surmounted by a royal crown at the top. The date 1625 is divided across the horizontal arms of the cross within the inner circle. A small escutcheon of the arms of Burgundy appears at the center of the cross. The surrounding circular legend, separated by pellet stops, reads PHIL IIII D G REX HISP INDIAR Zc, identifying Philip IV as King of Spain and the Indies by the grace of God. The coin is struck on an irregular flan typical of hammered coinage of the period, with the legend partially visible around the beaded inner circle. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | PHIL IIII D G REX HISP INDIAR Zc 16 25 (Translation: Philip IV, by the grace of God, King of Spain and the Indies, etc.) |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
The County of Burgundy — the Franche-Comté — remained under Habsburg rule long after the Duchy of Burgundy had passed to France, a geographic anomaly that made it a persistent flashpoint. Philip IV inherited this territory alongside the Spanish crown in 1621 and immediately faced French encroachment; Louis XIII's forces actually occupied the Franche-Comté briefly in 1636 during the broader Thirty Years' War, which likely disrupted production across this very issue's date range.
The patagon series was a product of the Spanish Netherlands monetary system extended into Burgundian coinage, standardized under earlier Habsburg policy and maintained here as a deliberate assertion of dynastic continuity.