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1 Daalder `Burgundian` - Philip II
| Issuer | Mint of Bruges (County of Flanders, Spanish Netherlands) |
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| Year | 1567-1569 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | At the center of the coin, a crowned Burgundian cross with elaborate firesteel-and-flint ornaments fills the field, its four arms radiating outward to the coin's edge. A crowned firesteel badge is placed at the central junction of the cross. The date is divided across the horizontal arms of the cross, with '15' to the left and '67' to the right. The surrounding circular legend reads · PHS · D : G · HISP · Z · REX · COMES · FLAN ·, identifying Philip II as King of Spain and Count of Flanders, rendered in bold Gothic-influenced Latin lettering. The overall design is characteristic of the Burgundian heraldic tradition, with deeply struck, bold relief elements typical of mid-sixteenth-century hammered coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Philip II authorized the Burgundian daalder series in 1566 partly as a response to the monetary chaos accompanying the outbreak of the Eighty Years' War — Alba's arrival in the Netherlands the following year with a 10,000-man army did nothing to stabilize commercial confidence. The Bruges mint struck these during precisely the years Alba was establishing the Council of Troubles, which confiscated estates and executed thousands, devastating the very merchant class that depended on large silver trade coinage.
The Delmonte S#93 designation flags this as a scarce Bruges attribution within the type — Antwerp dominated output, making provincial mint attributions the meaningful distinction among collectors of this series.