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| Uitgever | Province of Gelderland (Dutch Republic) |
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| Jaar | 1587 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | CONCORDIA · RES · PARVÆ · CRESCVNT · GEL · · (Translation: With harmony small things grow Gelderland) |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | Square klippe flan with a beaded inner circle enclosing a cruciform arrangement of five provincial coats of arms of the United Provinces, radiating from a central bundle of arrows — the symbol of the Union of Utrecht — set against a plain field. The five heraldic shields display the arms of individual provinces, each rendered in fine engraved detail characteristic of late sixteenth-century Dutch die work. The surrounding legend · MO · ORDIN · PROVIN · FOEDER · BELGIÆ · 1587 runs between the beaded border and the outer rim of the flan, with the date 1587 appearing to the left. |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
In 1587, the Province of Gelderland briefly offered sovereignty to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, who had arrived in the Netherlands as commander of English forces the previous year and accepted the Governor-Generalship against Elizabeth I's explicit wishes. The resulting diplomatic crisis — she publicly repudiated his acceptance — left Leicester's authority perpetually contested. Coins struck under his name during this period occupy an almost paradoxical space: issued by a legitimate provincial authority, yet tied to a governor England officially disavowed.
This klippe piedfort at double weight was almost certainly a presentation piece rather than a circulation strike. Pieforts of this type served as die trials or gifts to dignitaries, and the square-cut flan confirms it left the mint intentionally distinguished from ordinary coinage. Leicester was recalled in 1587 and finally departed the Netherlands for good in 1588.