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Double Sol - Philip II
| Issuer | Roussillon, County of |
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| Year | 1593-1598 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | Saint John the Baptist depicted standing facing, clad in traditional robes, cradling the Paschal lamb in his arms. In the left field, the letters P and P appear separated by a cross and two rings, serving as mint or civic marks. The surrounding legend, rendered in Latin, references the biblical phrase from the Gospel of Matthew identifying John as greatest among those born of women. |
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| Reverse lettering | +°INTER.NATOS+MVLIERVM° | P-P (Translation: Among the children of women...) |
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Roussillon remained under Spanish-Habsburg administration throughout this period, having been ceded to Aragon in 1258 and passing to Castile through the dynastic union — but the county retained its own distinct monetary issues rather than simply absorbing Castilian coinage. Philip II's final years, when this piece was struck, were marked by chronic treasury exhaustion from the Netherlands campaigns and the aftermath of the Armada disaster of 1588, driving repeated debasements of billon coinage across peripheral territories.