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1678, Spanish Netherlands, Flanders, Philip IV. Silver Patagon Coin. Bruges!

Mint Date: 1678 Denomination: Patagon Mint Place: Bruges (privy mark: lis) Region: Brabant (Spanish Netherlands) Reference: Davenport 4494, KM-63. R! Condition: Minor weakness of strike in obverse, light deposits and vendigris spots, mint-made planchet-splits, which were caused during the striking of this hammered issue, otherwise about XF! Weight: 27.88gm Diameter: 45mm Material: Silver

Obverse: Crown above cross of staves with fire iron in the middle with attached Toison d'Or Order below. Date split (16-78) in fields. Legend: PHIL . IIII . DG . HISP . ET . INDIAR . REX . (privy mark. lis) .

Reverse: Crowned arms of the spanish line of the Habsburgs surrounded by the Toison d'Or Order. Legend: ARCHID . AVST . DVX . BVRG . FLAN . Z .

The Spanish Netherlands (Dutch: Spaanse Nederlanden, Spanish: Países Bajos españoles) in broad sense were the Seventeen Provinces, that came under Habsburg rule after 1482. After 1556 they were under the Spanish Habsburg branch. The northern provinces separated from Habsburg rule during the Eighty Years' War (1568-1648) and became the independent United Provinces after the Oath of Abjuration of 1581. The southern provinces remained under Habsburg rule and formed the Spanish Netherlands in strict sense.

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.