Tournai 1593 2 patards
This specimen was lot 1699 in Jean Elsen sale 145 (Brussels, September 2020), where it sold for €60 (about US$86 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"TOURNAI, Seigneurie, Philippe II (1555-1598), AR double patard, 1593. D/ Croix cantonnée de deux lions et deux couronnes, un lion en coeur. R/ Ecu couronné dans un polylobe. Très Beau. (lordship of Tournai, Philip II, 1555-98, silver double patard of 1593. Obverse: cross cantonned with two lions and two crowns, a lion at the center; reverse: crowned arms in a polylobe. Very Fine.)"
This seems to be a very late issue of a denomination made in large quantities a century prior, during the reign of the Burgundian duke Charles the Rash.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 3,23 g.
Catalog reference: G.H. 219-14; Hoc 315; V.H. 313.
- [1]Elsen, Philippe, et al., Vente Publique 145, Brussels: Jean Elsen et ses Fils S.A., 2020.
- van der Wis, Jan, and Tom Passon, Catalogus van de Nederlandse Munten geslagen sind bet aantreden van Philips II tot aan het einde van de Bataafse Republiek (1555-1806), 2nd ed., Apeldoorn, Netherlands: Omni-Trading b.v., 2009.
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