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Pieter d'Or - Philip I of Saint-Pol
| Issuer | Brabant, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1430 |
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| Weight | 3.53 g |
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| Reverse description | An elaborate floriated cross occupies the full field, its four arms richly adorned with scrolling foliate and floral ornament terminating in stylized lily-form finials, with a small rosette at the central crossing point. The four quadrants formed by the cross arms are filled with symmetrical vegetal scrollwork of high relief, characteristic of the decorative Gothic style prevalent in the Brabantine mints during the first half of the fifteenth century. A plain inner border separates the central device from the circumferential legend, which is rendered in uncial Latin characters and separated by trefoil stops. The overall composition closely mirrors the reverse type established for the Pieter d'Or series under the dukes of Brabant. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Philip I of Saint-Pol ruled Brabant for just three years, from 1427 until his death without heirs in 1430 — the very year this coin was struck. His brief reign ended the Brabantine line of the House of Valois-Saint-Pol, triggering an inheritance dispute that ultimately delivered the duchy to Philip the Good of Burgundy. A coin from his final year carries that dynastic finality embedded in its minting context.
The Pieter d'Or takes its name from Saint Peter, and this type follows the Flemish gold coinage conventions that Brabant had gradually adopted through the early fifteenth century.