Lot 4210

AR Wedding Guilder ND (1517), Antwerpen (42 mm, 28.77 g). On the marriage of Maximilan I with Maria of Burgundy - by Ulrich Ursentaler. Dated 1479 (Egg 18/ Voglhuber 6) - Obv. Laureate and mantled bust of Maximilian to right dividing ETA - TIS ·19· below rose on cross / Rev. Draped bust of Maria to right dividing ·ETAT IS ·20· - VF - irregularities - very rare - Showpiece, minted for his trip to the Austrian Netherlands and in memory of his first wedding, hence also called the wedding guilder. Maximilian had these magnificent pieces struck in memory of his first wife, Mary of Burgundy; However, only after 1511, after the death of his second wife, Maria Bianca Sforza. In 1517 the dies were decorated with a cross rosette and sent to Antwerp.