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1/2 Gold Real - Philip II
| Issuer | Overijssel, Lordship of |
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| Year | 1562-1567 |
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| Reference(s) | GH#207-17, Delmonte G#1035 |
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| Obverse lettering | · + DOMINVS · MIHI · ADIVTOR · (Translation: God is my helper) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Overijssel's fractional gold coinage of this period occupies an awkward political moment: the lordship was nominally under Habsburg authority but retained enough local minting rights to strike its own issues, a privilege Philip II was systematically curtailing across the Low Countries throughout the 1560s. The timing of this issue places it squarely within the years leading to the Duke of Alba's arrival in 1567 and the subsequent suppression of provincial autonomy that helped ignite the Eighty Years' War.
The .750 fineness is slightly below the standard of contemporary Spanish gold, a deliberate local calibration rather than debasement.