1/10 Ecu Philippe - Philip II

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.