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1 Penning / 3 Mites - Philip II
| Issuer | Overijssel, Lordship of |
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| Year | 1562-1567 |
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| Reference(s) | GH#228-17, CNM#2.38.13 |
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| Reverse description | Within a beaded inner circle, a crowned shield bearing the rampant lion of Holland occupies the central field, the heraldic beast depicted facing left with raised forepaw in a dynamic posture. The shield is surmounted by a broad arched crown with ornamentation. The surrounding Latin legend DNS · MICHI · ADIVTOR, meaning 'The Lord is my helper,' runs along the outer margin between the inner and outer beaded borders. The overall style is consistent with small hammered billon coinage of the Spanish Netherlands under Philip II. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Overijssel's penning issues of the 1560s were struck under the shadow of mounting tension between the Habsburg administration and the Low Countries' provincial estates — years that would shortly collapse into the Revolt against Philip II. Billon this debased, barely eight parts silver per hundred, was essentially a copper coin with a silver conscience, used to handle the smallest transactions in a provincial economy that the central administration in Brussels largely ignored.