Duchy of Brabant ½ Nobel "schuitken" - Philip the Handsome, Regency, 1488

½ Noble from Duchy of Brabant. Issued in 1488. Struck in Gold (.952). Measures 0 mm and weighs 3.4 g.

Obverse

The king of the Romans, standing face-on on a ship, a sword over his right shoulder, and holding the globus cruciger in his left hand. In front of him , the shield of Philip (Coin of the King of the Romans, and Philip, Archduke of Austria, Burgundy and Brabant)

Reverse

In a polylobe, tripe floriate cross with lilies at the tips, a group of three annelets in each angle, and crowns between the tips . The letter (mint mark) M in the center, in a small polylobe (Peace Reforms Disasters of War)