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| Issuer | Zeeland, County of |
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| 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.