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Sap Moderator Australia 16842 Posts	Posted 04/10/2010 03:37 am Back to the mysterious #3: The shapes of the visible lettering on #4 indicate it's a very early coin, late 1400's to 1500's - too early for Krause, or for any of my other books. The cross is the crosslet cross, or "evangelist's cross", and is often held by St. Philip the Evaneglist. I've found him on coins of Flanders during the reign of Philip the Fair (the Hapsburg king of Castile), 1482-1506 which is the correct time frame for the style of lettering. Unfortunately, I have no idea what the fractional silver coins of Flanders and other Hapsburg territories of the time look like. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
bart Pillar of the Community Belgium 651 Posts	Posted 04/10/2010 04:31 am I don't think the coin comes from the Habsburg Netherlands. Sap is right about the time range: late middle ages. I looked through Vanhoudt's Atlas of the Belgian coins from Celts until now and I found the figure of a saint holding a shield is used on gold coins in the Habsburg Netherlands during the reigns of Philip the Fair and Charles V. I didn't find any silver coinage displaying this figure (with the exception of 2 coins, where the shield displays a climbing lion) Report this Post to the Staff
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