fwo_671123 - SPANISH NETHERLANDS - DUCHY OF BRABANT - PHILIP II 1/20 Écu 1593 Anvers
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Type : 1/20 Écu
Date: 1593
Mint name / Town : Anvers
Quantity minted : -
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 333 ‰
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,05 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie frappée sur un flan un peu court et irrégulier. Patine grise tachée au revers
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Predigree :
Exemplaire de la collection Aymé Cornu
Obverse
Obverse legend : PHS D - G. HIS - Z. REX - DVX. BRA..
Obverse description : Écu couronné écartelé, au 1 d’Autriche moderne, au 3 de Bourgogne moderne, au 3 de Bourgogne ancien, au 4 de Brabant, sur le tout un écu de Flandre, le tout dans un double polylobe fleuronnée.
Obverse translation : (Philippe, par la grâce de Dieu, roi d’Espagne, seigneur de Tournai).
Reverse
Reverse legend : DOMINVS MIHI. ADIVTOR. 15 (MAIN) 93.
Reverse description : Croix fleuronnée portant en cœur un quadrilobe évidé contenant une fleur.
Reverse translation : (Le Seigneur est mon aide).
Historical background
SPANISH NETHERLANDS - DUCHY OF BRABANT - PHILIP II
(1555-1598)
Philip II (1527-1598) is the son of Charles V and Isabella of Portugal. He succeeded his father who abdicated in his favor in 1555 in the Spanish Netherlands and, in 1556, for Spain and America. He successively married Marie of Portugal (1527-1545), then his cousin Marie Tudor (1516-1558), Queen of England, in 1560 Elisabeth of France (1545-1568) and finally Anne of Austria (1549-1580). He fights against the France of Henri II, then of Henri IV. He supports the Counter-Reformation. He won the victory of Lepanto in 1571. He died in 1598 and his son Philippe succeeded him.
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