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1 Oord - Philip II Trial strike
| Issuer | Mint of Dordrecht |
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| Year | 1578 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1506-1581) |
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| Obverse description | Central shield bearing a rampant lion, surmounted by an ornate crown with the date 1578 appearing above and flanking the crown. The shield is set within a beaded inner border, with a circular Latin legend running between the beaded border and the coin's rim reading PHS D : G : COM HOL Z ZEL, identifying Philip II as Count of Holland and Zeeland. A decorative rosette mint mark interrupts the legend. The overall design is characteristic of late sixteenth-century Spanish Netherlands hammered coinage, with bold, high-relief die work. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Philip II never sanctioned this piece. The Dordrecht mint struck it in 1578 as an unsolicited trial — one of several provincial attempts to establish a copper small-denomination coinage at a moment when the Dutch revolt had severed normal channels of monetary authority. The States of Holland were effectively improvising a financial system under war conditions, and local mints sometimes acted ahead of any formal approval.
No regular issue followed from this trial.