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Daalder 'Arendrijksdaalder' - Maximilian II
| Issuer | Deventer, Kampen, Zwolle, Imperial Cities of |
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| Year | 1567-1578 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A large crowned double-headed imperial eagle with spread wings dominates the central field, rendered in the bold relief characteristic of sixteenth-century German-influenced die work. A globus cruciger — the orb surmounted by a cross — is displayed on the eagle's breast, symbolising imperial authority. The eagle's two heads face outward in profile, each surmounted by a separate crown, with an imperial crown arching above both. A continuous Latin legend encircles the design in the outer border, referencing Emperor Maximilian II by name and title, and citing his imperial decree authorising the coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Arendrijksdaalder — "eagle reichsdaalder" — was struck jointly by the three Overijssel imperial cities of Deventer, Kampen, and Zwolle under imperial authorization from Maximilian II, whose portrait lent the issue its legitimacy during a period when the Habsburg Netherlands were fracturing under the weight of religious revolt. These cities held direct imperial status, answering to the Emperor rather than to Philip II, which gave their coinage a distinct political character from the provincial issues surrounding them.
The timing is everything: production spans precisely the years between the outbreak of the Eighty Years' War and the Union of Utrecht's political realignments, meaning these coins circulated through one of the most violent decades in Dutch urban history.