1 Daalder `Statendaalder`

The Statendaalder was introduced by the rebellious provincial States as a direct challenge to Habsburg monetary authority during the opening years of the Dutch Revolt. Guelders was among the earliest provinces to strike under the States' own name rather than Philip II's, a pointed political act at a moment when the Union of Arras and the Union of Utrecht had not yet formally split the Netherlands into two camps. The 1578 date places this piece squarely in the period of maximum uncertainty, before the 1581 Act of Abjuration made the break with Spain irrevocable.

The .750 fineness was a deliberate reduction from the Burgundian daalder standard, driven by wartime fiscal pressure.