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Liard of Philip IV, 1645

Details

Period
Spanish Netherlands (1500–1713)
Material
Copper
Condition
Good
Denomination
Liard
Currency
Guilder (Spanish Netherlands), 1506-1713
Worth
1/80 Guilder (Spanish Netherlands)
Year
1645
Issuer
Spanish Netherlands
Ruler
Philip IV
Reference
Numista
Diameter
25 mm
Weight
2.55 g
Location
Blauberg (Herselt)
What could it buy?Indicative

For this period in general, not for this coin in particular.

In 17th-century Antwerp (1601-1700) a master mason earned 72 to 78 pence groot a day in summer and 54 to 58.5 in winter. Counted at 60 pence groot to the gulden, that is 1.2 to 1.3 gulden, or 96 to 104 liards, per summer day. A liard was therefore roughly one hundredth of a master mason's summer day's pay. Indicative: one trade in one city, and the conversion to gulden is a unit of account, not a rate for any particular coin.

Confidence: medium

Sources:

The story

Liard from 1645, issued in the Spanish Netherlands under Philip IV. Still clearly legible.

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