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Silver Fleece - Philip the Handsome
| Issuer | Holland, County of |
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| Year | 1499 |
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| Reference(s) | GH#117-6, Levinson#III-269a |
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| Reverse description | Central field depicting a large stylized Golden Fleece — the hanging ram's fleece of the Order of the Golden Fleece — rendered in fine hammered relief, with the fleece suspended from an elaborate decorative collar or hook at the top. Curling foliate or flame-like decorative elements surround the fleece on either side, filling the inner field. A beaded inner ring separates the central device from the surrounding legend, which reads InICIVM + SAPIEnCIE + TIMOR + DOMInI + AnnO 1499 in Gothic uncial script, incorporating the date 1499 and the biblical inscription 'Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.' |
| Reverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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Philip the Handsome convened the chapter of the Order of the Golden Fleece at Middelburg in 1491, and Holland's coinage from the late 1490s reflects his consolidation of Burgundian-Habsburg authority over the Low Countries. This type was struck while Philip was navigating the regency disputes following Maximilian I's gradual withdrawal from direct Netherlands governance — a period of genuine administrative flux that makes precise attribution of regional mint output genuinely complicated.
The Levinson III-269a designation places this among a small cluster of variants distinguished by subtle die differences documented by that reference but not always consistently applied by later cataloguers.