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1 Crown - Philip II
| Issuer | Utrecht, Lordship of |
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| Year | 1571-1580 |
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| Weight | 3.5 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | PHS · DEI · G · HISP · Z · REX · D · TRAIEC ⬕ (Translation: Philip, by God's grace King of the Spains, etc. and Lord of Utrecht) |
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Utrecht's gold crown issues of this decade fall squarely within the period of the Spanish Fury and the early Revolt against Habsburg rule — years in which the Low Countries' mints were under intense pressure to produce reliable specie for military wages and merchant transactions alike. Philip II's administration pushed hard for coinage conformity across the seventeen provinces, but Utrecht retained enough autonomy in practice to produce issues that diverge subtly from the Brabant standard.
Delmonte G#952 is among the scarcer provincial gold attributions of the series.