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¹⁄10 Daalder '¹⁄10 Philipsdaalder'- Philip II Countermark

Issuer Zeeland, County of
Year 1573-1574
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Composition Silver (.833)
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Obverse lettering PHS · D · G · HISP · Z · REX · DNS · TRAIE 1571
(Translation: Philip, by God`s grace King of the Spaniards, Lord of Utrecht)
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Reverse lettering · DOMINVS · MIHI · ADIVTOR
(Translation: The Lord is my helper.)
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Zeeland's authorization of fractional countermarked coinage in 1573–1574 came directly out of the early chaos of the Dutch Revolt. With regular Spanish silver supply lines disrupted and small-denomination coinage desperately short, the provincial authorities resorted to countermarking cut or foreign pieces to authenticate them for local circulation. The Philipsdaalder — itself a coin Philip II had promoted across the Low Countries as a unified currency — was turned against its own issuer's authority when Zeeland began fragmenting and validating pieces bearing his name for rebel-controlled trade.

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