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1 Stuiver - Charles V
| Issuer | Holland, County of |
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| Year | 1521-1544 |
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| Reference(s) | GH#192-6 |
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| Obverse lettering | KAROLVS D G ROM IMP Z HISPA REX (Translation: Charles, by God's grace Emperor of the Romans and King of the Spaniards.) |
| Reverse description | The crowned coat of arms of the County of Holland occupies the central field, flanked on either side by a small Burgundian cross. A mint mark appears at the top of the field above the crowned shield. The heraldic composition is characteristic of Habsbur-Burgundian provincial coinage, presenting the territorial arms beneath a stylized crown. The peripheral Latin legend encircles the entire reverse design. |
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Charles V's Netherlands territories operated under a perpetual patchwork of local monetary ordinances, and Holland's stuiver issues from this period were repeatedly subject to imperial edicts attempting to standardize fineness across the seventeen provinces — with limited success. The billon composition reflects deliberate debasement policy rather than minting inefficiency; silver content was progressively reduced across multiple ordinances during the 1520s and 1530s as war financing demands on the Habsburgs intensified.
GH#192-6 encompasses several die marriages across more than two decades of production, and pieces struck at the tail end of the issue in the early 1540s tend to show measurably lower silver content than earlier strikes.