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1 Daalder 'Leeuwendaalder' Date obverse
| Issuer | Overijssel, Province of |
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| Year | 1585-1602 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A rampant lion passant left, depicted with open jaws, flowing mane, and raised forepaws, occupying the central field within a beaded inner circle. The figure is boldly struck in high relief in the characteristic style of the Dutch Leeuwendaalder series. A circular Latin legend reading CONFIDENS × DNO × NON × MOVETVR × (He who trusts in the Lord shall not be moved) surrounds the central device between the beaded circle and the outer rim. The hammered technique imparts a characteristic irregular planchet edge and variable strike depth across the design. |
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The leeuwendaalder was struck by the rebellious Dutch provinces specifically to fuel foreign trade during the Eighty Years' War — Spanish embargoes had choked off access to Spanish-American silver, forcing the provinces to develop their own coinage infrastructure almost from scratch. Overijssel's issues from this period are complicated by the province's precarious military position; Spanish forces occupied much of its territory intermittently through the 1580s and 1590s, making continuous mint operation genuinely difficult.
The type became the dominant trade coin across the Levant and Baltic by the early seventeenth century, often accepted by weight rather than face value.