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1 Duit - Philip IV Inscription
| Issuer | Roermond, City of |
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| Year | 1639 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse lettering | P . DG · DV . GEL RIÆ . (Translation: Philip IV, by God`s grace, Duke of Gelderland) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Roermond spent much of the seventeenth century caught between Spanish Habsburg administration and repeated sieges during the Eighty Years' War. The city fell to the Dutch Republic in 1632 and was returned to Spanish control only in 1637 — just two years before this duit was struck, making it an early product of restored Habsburg municipal authority under Philip IV.
GH#342 is among the more precisely documented of the Roermond copper issues in Gelder-Hoc's reference, though surviving examples vary considerably in strike sharpness owing to the city's modest minting infrastructure.