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1 Silver Real - Charles V
| Issuer | Holland, County of |
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| Year | 1521-1532 |
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| Weight | 3.06 g |
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| Reverse description | Central field displays a large crowned quartered shield bearing the composite arms of the Habsburg-Burgundian Netherlands, incorporating lions, eagles, and diagonal banded quarters representing the various territories under Charles V's rule. The crown above the shield is prominently rendered with fleurons. The surrounding circular Latin legend reads DA • MICI VIRTVT COTR • HO STS • TVOS, a devotional invocation meaning 'Give me strength against Thine enemies.' The coin exhibits the characteristic irregularity of a hand-hammered flan, with areas of weakness in the peripheral legend consistent with the minting technique of the period. |
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| Reverse lettering | DA • MICI VIRTVT COTR • HO STS • TVOS |
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Charles V inherited Holland through his grandmother Mary of Burgundy, and by 1521 the county's mints were operating under the monetary ordinances he issued as Holy Roman Emperor — a jurisdictional overlap that created persistent tension between imperial monetary policy and local minting tradition. Holland's reals from this period were struck in direct response to Castilian monetary influence, the real being a denomination imported from Iberian practice into the Habsburg Netherlands.
Vanhoudt 227·DO places this among the Dordrecht issues, that mint having remained the dominant striking facility in Holland throughout the 1520s.