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This specimen was lot 597 in Jean Elsen sale 138 (Brussels, September 2018), where it sold for €550 (about US$763 including buyer's fees). The catalog description^[1] noted,

"BRABANT, Duché, Philippe le Beau (1482-1506), AV demi-florin au saint Philippe, s.d. (1500-1506), Anvers. Croisette initiale au revers. D/ Saint Philippe deb. de f., ten. devant lui l'écu couronné d'Autriche-Bourgogne. Avec S PHE en début de légende. R/ Croix fleuronnée cantonnée de deux couronnes et de deux lis, un lion en coeur. G.H. 116-1b; Delm. 87; W. 600. 1,62 g Rare Ponctuation par doubles croisettes. Très Beau. (duchy of Brabant, Philip the Fair, 1482-1506, undated gold half florin of St. Philip, Antwerp mint, initial cross on the reverse. Obverse: St. Philip facing, bearing the crowned shield of Austria-Burgundy, with S PHE at the beginning of the legend; reverse: floriated cross cantoned with two crowns and two fleurs-de-lys, a lion at the center. Rare, punctuated by double crosses, very fine.)"