Tournai 1622 escalin

Jean Elsen sale 108, lot 849

This specimen was lot 849 in Jean Elsen sale 108 (Brussels, March 2011) where it sold for 80 euros (about US$131.41 including buyer's fee). The catalog description^[1] noted,

"TOURNAI, Seigneurie, Philippe IV (1621-1665), AR escalin, 1622, Droit : Lion debout à gauche, tenant une épée et un écu ovale d'Autriche-Bourgogne. Revers : Ecu couronné sur une croix de Bourgogne. Belle patine. presque Superbe" (Lordship of Tournai, Philip IV, 1621-65, silver escalin. Obverse: Lion rampant left, bearing a sword and the arms of Austria-Burgundy; reverse: crowned arms on a cross of Burgundy. Nice patina, nearly Extremely Fine.)

The mint at Tournai struck this type irregularly 1622-57. Philip IV of Spain (1605-65) was the son of Philip III and Margarita of Austria. He became king on the death of his father in 1621, the year he married Elizabeth of France (1602-44), the daughter of Henry IV and Marie de Medicis. He was the brother of Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII, and the father of Maria Theresa, wife of Louis XIV. The majority of his reign passed in war with France. After 1635, Spain entered the Thirty Years War. After the peace of Westphalia in 1648, the war continued between France and Spain and did not end until the Peace of the Pyrenees in 1659. France lost Catalonia but gained Roussillon. Cardinal Mazarin and Anne of Austria arranged the marriage of Louis XIV with princess Maria Theresa in 1660. Widowed, Philip IV married Maria Anna of Austria, sister of emperor Leopold, and they had one son, the sickly Charles II (d. 1700), the origin of the War of the Spanish Succession.

Reported Mintage: unknown.

Specification: 5.26 g, .582 fine silver, .098 troy oz ASW, this specimen 5.07 g.

Catalog reference: KM 41, G.H.-333-9; Hoc-579.

Source:

Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
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 108, Brussels: Jean Elsen et ses Fils, S.A., 2011.

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