Flanders 1586 1/2 duit

Jean Elsen sale 155, lot 1538

This specimen was lot 1538 in Jean Elsen sale 155 (Brussels, June 2023), where it sold for €90 (about US$118 including buyer's fees). The catalog description^[1] noted,

"VLAANDEREN, Graafschap, Philips II (1555-1598), Cu halve duit (3 mijten), 1586, Brugge. Vz/ Bourgondisch kruis. Kz/ Gekroond leeuwenschild tussen het jaartal. Zeldzaam. Op een brede muntplaat geslagen. Zeer Fraai. (county of Flanders, Philip II, 1555-98, copper half duit or three mites of 1586, Bruges mint. Obverse: Burgundian cross; reverse: crowned arms divide the date. Scarce, struck on a small flan, Very Fine.)"

The half duit is a denomination better known in the northern provinces, where it was struck extensively in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: copper, this specimen 1,51 g.

Catalog reference: G.H. 236-7; V.H. 330.

Source:

• 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 155, Collection Marc Bar et Distinctions de Jean-Baptiste Nothomb, Brussels: Jean Elsen et ses Fils S.A., 2023.

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