Cambrai 1576 2 patards
This specimen was lot 872 in Jean Elsen sale 149 (Brussels, December 2021), where it sold for €180 (about US$244 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"CAMBRAI, Archevêché, Louis de Berlaymont (1570-1596), AR double patard (1/16 d'écu), 1576. Au titre de Maximilien II. D/ Ecu de Berlaymont sous 76 R/ Croix fleuronnée, l'aigle impériale en coeur. Rare Belle patine. Très Beau. (archbishopric of Cambrai, Louis de Berlaymont, 1570-96, silver double patard of 1576, struck in the name of Maximilain II. Obverse: arms of the bishop, date above; reverse: floriate cross, imperial eagle in the center. Rare, nice patina, Very Fine.)"
Cambrai is now in France, in the department of the Nord. In the sixteenth century, it was still part of the Netherlands. Wikipedia comments,
"Cambrai from 1512 was part of the Imperial Lower Rhenish–Westphalian Circle and – like the Prince-Bishopric of Liège – was not incorporated into the Seventeen Provinces of the Burgundian Circle. Nevertheless, the creation in 1559 of the new metropolitan See of Mechelen and of eleven other dioceses in the Southern Netherlands was at the request of King Philip II of Spain, in order to facilitate the struggle against the Reformation. The change greatly restricted the limits of the Diocese of Cambrai, which, when thus dismembered, was made by way of compensation an archiepiscopal see with the dioceses of Saint Omer, Tournai and Namur as suffragans. The councils of Leptines, at which Saint Boniface played an important role, were held in what was then the part of the former Diocese of Cambrai in the Southern Netherlands."
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 2,74 g.
Catalog reference: Robert -.
- 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 149: Monnaies, Médailles et Décorations, Brussels: Jean Elsen et ses Fils S.A., 2021.
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