1 Daalder Piedfort of double weight - Philip II

Piedforts — coins struck at double or greater thickness on a standard-diameter flan — were almost never intended for circulation. In the sixteenth-century Low Countries they functioned primarily as presentation pieces, gifts to dignitaries, or as official records of the die design held by the issuing authority. This example from Guelders dates to the transitional window immediately after Charles V's abdication in 1555, when Philip II inherited the Spanish Netherlands and faced immediate questions of local monetary authority.

Guelders had only been absorbed into Habsburg control in 1543, and the duchy retained a degree of administrative independence that made its mint output politically charged. The Delmonte and van der Chijs references both treat this piedfort as a distinct issue rather than a trial, suggesting it was produced with intent.