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1 Daalder `Ecu des Etats` - Flanders Revolt
| Issuer | Spanish Netherlands (County of Flanders, Belgian States) |
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| Year | 1578-1579 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Quartered royal arms of Philip II of Spain — combining the castles of Castile, lions of León, fleurs-de-lis of Burgundy, and the eagle of the County of Flanders — surmounted by an imperial crown and flanked by the elaborate linked collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece, from which the badge is pendant at the base. The shield is boldly struck within a plain inner circle. The encircling Latin legend PACE ET IVSTITIA runs in the outer field between beaded borders. |
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The "Écu des États" issues of 1578–79 emerge directly from the political rupture following the Union of Arras and the Union of Utrecht — the moment the seventeen provinces fractured beyond repair. Flanders, still nominally under Habsburg authority but in open administrative rebellion, struck these coins through the States General as an assertion of fiscal autonomy rather than outright secession. The issuing authority matters: these are not royal coins produced in the king's name.
Delmonte S#113 is among the scarcer assignments in the series, and catalogers have occasionally conflated die marriages across the Gelder-Hoc 245–247 range.