Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 1039. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOW COUNTRIES, Kamerijk (Cambrai). CU Twee Patard. Siege issue. Struck 1595. • HENRICO • PROTECTORE, large fleur-de-lis within reeded border; II stamp to left; P stamp to right / Blank. Brause-Mansfeld pl. X (illustration unnumbered); cf. Robert pl. X, 9; cf. Mailliet 92-3. In NGC slab graded AU 55 BN.

Ex Georg Baum Collection (Künker 116, 27 September 2006), lot 4069.

Weakened by a series of religious wars in the 1590s, France under Henry IV was ill-equipped to deal with the powerful Spanish threat on its border with the Netherlands. In several quick and decisive moves, the Spanish captured the French-held fortress of Cambrai in 1595, followed soon by Calais and the strategically important fortress of Amiens.