1 Liard Spanish Netherlands (1581 - 1714) Copper

1693, Spanish Netherlands, Brabant, Charles II. Copper Liard (12 Mites) Coin.

Mint Year: 1693
State: Brabant (Duchy)
Region: Spanish Netherlands
Denomination: Liard (12 Mites)
Reference: KM-93.1.
Material: Copper
Diameter: 25mm
Weight: 3.07gm

Obverse: Crown above fire iron (symbol for the House of Habsburg) and three shields with arms of Habsburg/Burgundy/Brabant.
Legend: .ARCHID. AVST. DVX. BVRG. BRAB. Z 16-93.

Reverse: Crowned coat-of-arms.
Legend: CAROL. II. D. G. HISP. ET. INDIARUM. REX.

The Duchy of Brabant was a State of the Holy Roman Empire established in 1183. It developed from the Landgraviate of Brabant and formed the heart of the historic Low Countries, part of the Burgundian Netherlands from 1430 and of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1482, until it was partitioned after the Dutch revolt. Present-day North Brabant (Staats-Brabant) was adjudicated to the Generality Lands of the Dutch Republic according to the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, while the reduced duchy remained part of the Southern Netherlands until it was conquered by French Revolutionary forces in 1794. Today all the duchy’s former territories are in Belgium except for the Dutch province of North Brabant.

The king of Spain, Charles II, was a Habsburg by descent and was related by marriage to the Austrian branch.

Charles II (6 November 1661, Madrid – 1 November 1700, Madrid), was the last Habsburg King of Spain and the ruler of nearly all of Italy (except Piedmont, the Papal States and the Republic of Venice), the Spanish territories in the Southern Low Countries, and Spain’s overseas Empire, stretching from Mexico to the Philippines. He is noted for his extensive physical, intellectual, and emotional problems – along with the consequent ineffectual rule – as well as his role in the developments preceding the War of Spanish Succession.