Gros 'Pinatelle' - Philip William and Maurice of Nassau

Philip William, the eldest son of William the Silent, spent virtually his entire adult life as a hostage in Spain — seized by the Duke of Alba in 1568 and held for nearly three decades. During his captivity, his younger half-brother Maurice administered Orange and issued coinage in both their names, a deliberate assertion of dynastic legitimacy against Spanish pressure to absorb the principality entirely. The 'Pinatelle' type reflects that brief window when both names still appeared together, before Philip William's prolonged absence rendered the joint attribution increasingly nominal.