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1 Statenoord - Philip II
| Issuer | Overijssel, Lordship of |
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| Year | 1578-1579 |
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| Weight | 7.2 g |
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| Obverse description | Armored bust of Philip II facing left, wearing a ruffled collar and pauldron, rendered in a bold, somewhat naive hammered style characteristic of provincial Netherlandish coinage. A small heraldic shield appears in the field below the truncation. The effigy is surrounded by a circular Latin legend reading PHS · D : G · HISP · Z · REX · DO · TRS · ISSVL, identifying Philip as King of Spain and Lord of Overijssel. The legend is contained within a beaded or toothed border running along the coin's periphery. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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The statenoord — also spelled statennooord or staten oord — was an emergency copper issue authorized by the provincial States as the Dutch Revolt ground through its most destructive early phase. Overijssel's position made it a contested zone; Spanish forces under Don John and then Parma were pressing hard across the eastern provinces in precisely these years. Philip II's name on the coin is almost purely nominal — the provincial States were effectively issuing on their own authority by this point, even while maintaining the legal fiction of loyalty.
GH#252-17 is one of several die variants documented for this type across the 1578–1579 window.