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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 129742, member: 112&quot;]Today it is - then it was not, especially since Belgium didn&#039;t even exist at the time. </p><p><br /></p><p>So it is entirely correct to say this coin is from the Netherlands - which by the way means Low Countries. And Flanders was definitely one of the Low Countires. If you wish, you can also read this article on Wikkipedia - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeen_Provinces#The_17_Provinces" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeen_Provinces#The_17_Provinces" rel="nofollow">HERE</a>. There you will also see that Flanders was one of the 17 provinces which was reperesented when the &quot;Estates General of the Netherlands&quot; met for governmental purposes. That pretty much nails it down for me.</p><p><br /></p><p>But if you wish to be entirely correct, this coin was issued under the auspices and authority of the King of France. So it would also be correct to say this was a French coin. Of course that should be obvious given the reason that the coin was struck to begin with - to pay the ransom for the French King.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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