1 Daalder `Burgundian` - Philip II

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.