Florin - Albert and Isabella

Albert and Isabella received the Spanish Netherlands as a sovereign grant from Philip II in 1598, a political arrangement designed to give the provinces the appearance of autonomy while keeping them firmly within the Habsburg orbit through the marriage condition — if the couple died without heirs, the territory reverted to Spain. They did, and it did. Tournai, one of the oldest minting centers in the Low Countries, struck florins under this new joint authority almost immediately, placing both archdukes on the coinage as co-sovereigns.

The issue dates to the opening of the Twelve Years' Truce negotiations, a period when the southern provinces remained under Spanish military pressure while the northern Dutch Republic had effectively broken free.