Brabant 1597 duit
This specimen was lot 765 in Jean Elsen sale 159 (Brussels, June 2024), where it sold for €90 (about US$116 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"BRABANT, Duché, Philippe II (1555-1598), Cu gigot (duit), 1597, sans marque d'atelier. D/ Croix de Bourgogne couronnée, accostée de la date. R/ Ecu couronné. Extrêmement rare. Très Beau. (duchy of Brabant, Philip II, 1555-98, copper gigot or duit of 1597, without mintmark. Obverse: crowned Burgundian cross divides the date; reverse: crowned arms. Extremely rare, very fine.)"
In the Dutch provincial system of the eighteenth century, a duit was a copper coin worth one-eighth of a stuiver or 1/480 of a ducaton. The gigot was half a liard.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: copper, this specimen is 2,35 g.
Catalog reference: G.H. 234; W. 844 var.; VH 329 (unlisted date).
- 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., Vente Publique 159, Collection Harry Dewit, Brussels: Jean Elsen et ses Fils S.A., 2024.
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