Jeton for the Birth of Charles V

Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 1995. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOW COUNTRIES, Brabant. Filips I de Schone (the Handsome). 1482-1506. Æ Jeton (3.55 g, 3h). Dated 1500. Crowned coat of arms of Austria-Burgundy, P - I flanking / Crowned coat of arms of Castile-Aragon. Dugniolle 702. Near VF, brown patina, some encrustation. Very rare.

From the Robert A. Levinson Collection.

This jeton, dated 1500, was struck the year of Charles V’s birth by his parents Philip the Handsome of Austria-Burgundy and Joanna of Castile.