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Daalder 'Arendrijksdaalder' - Maximilian II
| Issuer | Deventer, Kampen, Zwolle, Imperial Cities of |
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| Year | 1567-1578 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays three heraldic shields arranged side by side beneath crested helmets: the arms of Deventer at center, Kampen to the left, and Zwolle to the right. The composition is executed in the Renaissance heraldic style typical of the late sixteenth-century Low Countries. The date, divided by the central design elements, appears in the lower portion of the field. A circular Latin legend runs along the outer border, identifying the three issuing imperial cities. |
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| Obverse lettering | TRIVM ★ CIVI`★ IMPE`★ DAVEN`★ CAMPE`★3WOL` (Translation: Trio of imperial cities of Deventer, Kampen Zwolle) |
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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.