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Lot 3629    Session 12 (11.30am Thursday)    World Silver & Bronze Coins

Estimate $500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $400

LOW COUNTRIES, Netherlands, County of Horn, Philippe de Montmorency (1524-beheaded Brussels 5 June 1568) silver daalder (27.55 grams), St. Martin on horseback left beggar beneath; reverse arms of Montmorency and H, golden fleece surrounds former. Small flan split, fine and rare.

Philip de Montmorency, Count of Horn incured the wrath of Philip II of Spain by his continual resistance to Spanish rule in the Netherlands and use of the Inquisistion. He was tried, condemned as a traitor and beheaded in 1568 with the Count of Egmont in front of the Town Hall in Brussels. Ex Frank McCarthy Collection.

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