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1/4 Daalder `1/4 Bourgondische Kruisrijksdaalder` in name of Philip II
| Issuer | Province of Overijssel (Dutch Republic) |
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| Year | 1590-1592 |
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| Value | 1/4 Rijksdaalder (1/4 bourgondische rijksdaalder) (9⁄16) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central shield bearing the quartered arms of the Spanish Habsburg monarchy — Castile, León, Aragon, and other dynastic territories — surmounted by a royal crown. The shield is flanked on either side by decorative foliate or trefoil ornaments. The circumferential Latin legend runs around the full periphery within a toothed border, referencing the biblical phrase 'The Lord is my helper'. |
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Overijssel struck these fractional daalders during one of the most precarious stretches of the Dutch Revolt — the province had only recently stabilized after Spanish forces under Parma swept through the eastern Netherlands in the early 1580s. Minting in the name of Philip II while actively fighting his armies was not hypocrisy but legal necessity: Dutch coinage derived its acceptability from imperial authority, and abandoning that fiction entirely would have disrupted trade with neighbouring territories still under Habsburg control.
The series ran only three years before Overijssel abandoned the Bourgondische Kruisdaalder type altogether.