1/2 Rijksdaalder / 1/2 Prinsendaalder

West Friesland struck these pieces during the most precarious decade of the Dutch Revolt, when the northern provinces were simultaneously fighting Spain, building a functioning federal republic, and trying to maintain enough monetary coherence to pay an army. The Prinsendaalder denomination takes its name from Willem van Oranje, whose assassination in 1584 had already occurred by the time this series began — the title was honorific, backward-looking, politically useful.

Provincial minting in the Dutch Republic was notoriously decentralized, and West Friesland's output frequently diverged from agreed federal standards. Delmonte's cataloguing of this specific provincial variety reflects how granular the die and mint attribution work becomes across the 1592–1599 window.