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1 Stuiver Schoonhoven
| Issuer | City of Schoonhoven (Province of Holland, Dutch Republic) |
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| Year | 1575 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1581-1795) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Schoonhoven |
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Schoonhoven's tin stuivers of 1575 belong to the emergency coinage produced during the early, desperate phase of the Dutch Revolt, when the established silver supply was strangled by war and Spanish blockade. Tin was a last resort — no mint operating under normal circumstances would have issued it for a coin carrying this denomination. The city's monetary authority to strike at all derived from the breakdown of centralized Habsburg control rather than any formal grant.
Tin coinage of this period survives poorly. The metal oxidizes aggressively, and most examples that circulated have surfaces ranging from dull grey to near-black with active corrosion.