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1/10 Ecu Philippe - Philip II
| Issuer | Overijssel, Lordship of |
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| Year | 1562 |
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| Weight | 3.43 g |
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| Reverse description | A crowned Burgundian cross occupies the center of the field, with a firesteel (flint-and-steel badge of the Order of the Golden Fleece) displayed at the crossing. The jewel of the Order of the Golden Fleece hangs below the cross on a short chain. Radiating sparks or flames fill the quarters between the arms of the cross, consistent with the heraldic iconography of the Habsburgs. The encircling Latin legend is separated from the design by a beaded inner border. |
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| Mintage | 1562 |
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Overijssel's mint rights during the 1560s were exercised under increasingly fraught political conditions — Philip II had inherited the Seventeen Provinces from his father Charles V in 1555, but his centralizing policies and the Duke of Alba's subsequent arrival in 1567 would effectively end autonomous provincial minting within a decade. This 1562 issue sits just ahead of that rupture, struck while the province still retained meaningful, if contested, control over its own coinage.
The fractional écu denomination served local trade demand rather than any prestige function. GH#213-17 is not among the common survivors of the type.