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1/4 Daalder `Burgundian` - Philip II
| Issuer | Spanish Netherlands (County of Flanders, Belgian States) |
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| Year | 1568-1570 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | A crowned Burgundian firesteel (briquet) occupies the central field, set at the intersection of a saltire-form Burgundian cross whose four arms radiate toward the coin's periphery, each terminating in flint-and-steel motifs characteristic of the Order of the Golden Fleece insignia. The date is divided by the central crown, with '15' appearing to the left and '70' to the right. The circumferential Latin legend runs in a beaded border around the entire obverse, identifying Philip II as King of Spain and Count of Flanders. The overall composition reflects the distinctive Habsburgian heraldic vocabulary of the Spanish Netherlands in the sixteenth century. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Philip II inherited the Netherlands from his father Charles V in 1555 and almost immediately set about dismantling the relative autonomy the provinces had enjoyed. The Duke of Alba's arrival in 1567 with a Spanish army — and the establishment of the Council of Troubles, which sentenced thousands to death or exile — created the precise political crisis during which these coins were struck. Minting continued even as open revolt hardened into what would become the Eighty Years' War.
The "Burgundian" designation refers to the dynastic tradition Philip inherited rather than any geographical claim, linking the coinage backward to the Valois Dukes of Burgundy who had first unified the Low Countries nearly a century earlier.