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1 Daalder 'Philipsdaalder' - Philip II Countermark A13.1
| Issuer | Holland, County of |
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| Year | 1569 |
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| Technique | Hammered, Countermarked |
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| Obverse description | Central Burgundian cross with firesteel (flint and steel) at the intersection, the date divided by the arms of the cross, with a mint mark positioned at the top of the cross. The Latin legend runs along the outer periphery. The applied countermark A13.1 is struck at the bottom of the field. The overall design exhibits the characteristic hammered style of mid-sixteenth-century Netherlandish coinage, with bold, slightly irregular relief typical of the period. |
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| Obverse lettering | PHS · DEI · G · HISP · Z · REX · DVX · GEL (Translation: Philip, by the Grace of God, King of Spain, Duke of Gelderland) |
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The Philipsdaalder was introduced by Philip II in 1555 as a large silver trade coin intended to circulate across the Habsburg Netherlands, but by the late 1560s the political situation had collapsed entirely. Alba's Council of Blood was executing hundreds of suspected heretics and rebels, and coin countermarking became a practical tool for local authorities to validate or revalue circulating silver as monetary trust fragmented along confessional and political lines.
The A13.1 countermark attribution places this piece within Delmonte's systematic cataloguing of Dutch countermark series — a classification that remains the standard reference for this notoriously complex material.