1 Penning / 3 Mites - Philip II

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.