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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;silvereagle82, post: 859443, member: 1700&quot;]My newest Low Country gold.....</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f374/silvereagle82/IMG_2759500x500.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f374/silvereagle82/IMG_2761_500x500.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Belgium (Flanders) </p><p>Cavalier d&#039;or (Commonly referred to as a Golden Rider)</p><p>ND (1434-1477)</p><p><br /></p><p>Design: OBVERSE:&nbsp; The duke in knight’s armour and a raised sword in his right hand, seated on a horse galloping to the right; below, the word xFLADx . Legend “Ph”S: DEI:GRA: DVX:BVRG:E:COME – S :FLANDRIE (Philippus dei gratia dux Burgundiae et comes Flandriae&nbsp; ~ REVERSE: The Burgundian arms, with a Flanders lion-shiled inescutcheon, over a cross fleury; at the end of the legend, the Burgundian emblem, a briquet. Legend “☩SIT:NOMEN: DOMINI:BENEDICTVM:AMEN:</p><p>Mint: Ghent</p><p>Mintage: 944,099</p><p>References: Fr.183 / Delmonte #487 (Rarity Scale = R.2 – Very Rare) </p><p>Specifications:&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Diameter – 28.0mm </p><p>Weight – 3.590 g. @ 0.9920 Gold = . oz AGW</p><p>Notes:</p><p>- Minted under the rule of the Philip III (1419-1467); Duke of Burgundy, Count of Flanders, Artois and Franche-Comté; when his father, John the Fearless, was assassinated in 1419. Philip III was known as Philip the Good. Philip significantly enlarged the Netherlands possessions for the House of Burgundy and it was his troops who captured Joan of Arc and handed her over to the English in 1430.</p><p>- In 1433 the duke introduced a uniform coinage system, which prescribed coinage of a single type and standard for provinces of Brabant, Flanders, Hainaut, and Holland. Each province was allowed a single mint. The new gold coin was the Philippus, which later became better known as the rider because of its obverse type. In numismatic circles this coin is commonly referred to as franc d’or a’ cheval or cavalier d’or.</p><p>- This type continued with a motif whose prototype is the franc d’or a’ cheval or cavalier introduced in France in 1360 and was adopted by Louis de Male in Flanders in the mid 1300s. This type is altered from the earlier issues: the duke rides to the right, on the other his cloak and the caparison of his horse are not decorated with lys. The reverse still bears a cross fleury, but the center is overlaid with the quartered arms of Burgundy.</p><p>- The finess of the rider, 992/1000, corresponds to that of the French salut d’or.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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