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1/2 Daalder '1/2 Philipsdaalder' - Philip II Bust right
| Issuer | Flanders, County of |
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| Year | 1562-1565 |
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| Value | 17.5 Stuivers (0.875) |
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| Obverse description | Armored and draped bust of Philip II facing right, wearing a ruffled collar, with curly hair and a short beard, rendered in bold relief characteristic of mid-16th century Flemish hammered coinage. The effigy occupies the central field, with the mint mark dividing the circular Latin legend at the lower portion. The date appears below the bust within the legend. The portrait is executed in a naturalistic Renaissance style, conveying regal authority through the detailed articulation of the armor and collar. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Philipsdaalder series was introduced under Philip II's Low Countries administration as part of a deliberate monetary reorganization following the abdications of Charles V. Flanders, as the wealthiest and most commercially active of the Burgundian provinces, was a logical hub for the new large-silver coinage intended to compete with the German thaler in international trade circuits. The half denomination served merchants who needed fractional values for the Baltic and Levantine commodity trades that moved through Antwerp — then at its commercial peak before the city's catastrophic decline after 1576.
The GH#211-7a/b distinction typically reflects minor die differences in the reverse quartering; both varieties circulated concurrently without differentiation by the issuing authority.