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Rose Noble
| Issuer | Overijssel, Province of |
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| Year | 1583 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | A crowned armored ruler stands upright within a sailing vessel, holding an upright sword in the right hand and a heraldic shield bearing the arms of Overijssel in the left. The ship is depicted in profile with rigging detail, and the overall composition follows the traditional noble or ship-type design inherited from English and Burgundian gold coinage. A continuous Latin legend surrounds the design within a beaded inner circle. |
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| Obverse lettering | MO NE· NOV· AVRE· ORDIN· TRANSISSV LANIÆ (Translation: New gold coinage of the state of Overijssel) |
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Overijssel's 1583 rose noble was struck during one of the most chaotic years of the Dutch Revolt, when the province was actively contesting Spanish control and its urban centers were changing hands with alarming frequency. The choice to issue gold coinage at this moment was a deliberate assertion of financial authority by a province that could not yet count on political survival, let alone monetary stability.
The type follows the English rose noble tradition, a denomination that had circulated widely in the North Sea trade networks for well over a century by this point. Delmonte's G#1039 is among the rarer provincial attributions within the series.