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1/5 Philipsdaalder - Philip II
| Issuer | Utrecht, Lordship of |
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| Year | 1571 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Crowned Spanish-Habsburg composite shield at centre, displaying the quartered arms of Castile, León, Aragon, and Granada, superimposed over a Burgundian cross with ball-tipped terminals. The crowned shield is set within the angles of the cross, and the peripheral Latin motto legend encircles the composition along the rim of the irregularly shaped flan. |
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Utrecht's mint rights during this period were exercised under considerable political tension — the province was formally under Habsburg authority, yet local resistance to Philip II's fiscal and religious policies was already hardening into what would become the Dutch Revolt. This coin was struck just three years after the Council of Blood's most active phase under the Duke of Alba, whose forced war taxes were the immediate economic trigger for the uprising.
The 1/5 philipsdaalder denomination was a fractional solution to a real circulation problem: the full daalder was too valuable for most daily transactions.