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279, Lot: 737. Estimate $100.
Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOW COUNTRIES, Vlaanderen (Flanders [Graafschap]). Filips IV de Schone (the Handsome). 1482-1506. CU Dubbel Mite (17mm, 0.75 g, 9h). Gent (Gand) mint. Dated 1489. Coat-of-arms / Cross fleurée; lis at center. Levinson II-120. VF, dark green patina. Rare.


From the R. J. Weinstein Collection. Ex Elsen 61 (18 March 2000), lot 1507.

The city of Gent struck this coin in revolt against Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I. The city, enraged by Maximilian’s high taxes, sought the support of King Charles VIII of France, Maximilian’s rival. Charles gave the city permission to strike coinage under the name of the sovereign of Burgundy, Philip the Handsome, who was a child at the time and still under the regency of his father Maximilian.