Brabant 1547 couronne d'or Fr-62
This specimen was lot 548 in Jean Elsen list 269 (Brussels, July-August 2014), where it was offered for €600 (about US$816). The catalog description[1] noted,
"BRABANT, Duché, Charles Quint (1506-1555), AV écu d'or au soleil, 1547, Anvers. Droit: Ecu couronné d'Autriche-Bourgogne, accosté de deux briquets. Revers: Croix fleurdelisée, cantonnée de deux aigles et de deux tours. Ex HSA 8507. Rare. Légère faiblesse de frappe. Très Beau (duchy of Brabant, Charles V (1506-55), gold écu d'or of the sun of 1547. Antwerp mint. Obverse: crowned arms of Austria-Burgundy divide two jewels; reverse: floriate cross, two eagles and two towers in fields. Rare, slightly weak strike, very fine.)"
The Couronne d'or was issued from Antwerp and Maastricht in Brabant 1542-55, as well as Flanders, Holland, Gelderland and elsewhere. Couronnes d'or were struck again in the Spanish Netherlands about 1615-42 but by then the northern provinces had seceded.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 3.31 g, 0.919 fine gold; this specimen is 3,36 g.
Catalog reference: G.H., 186-1; Delm-102; W., 664, Fr-62.
- Delmonte, A., Le Bénélux D'or, Amsterdam: Jacques Schulman N.V., 1964, with supplements to 1977.
- Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
- van Gelder, H. Enno, and Marcel Hoc, Les Monnaies des pays-Bas Bourguignons et Espagnols, 1434-1713, Amsterdam, J. Schulman, 1960, with supplement of 1964.
- [1]Elsen, Philippe, et al., Liste 269: Juillet-Septembre 2014, Brussels: Jean Elsen et ses Fils, S.A., 2014.
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