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@1c5d, first, to answer your question of a couple of days ago, here is the 1575 Leeuwendaalder I was referring to: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3125296

Next, I will post this coin I just won, with your advice on how to date it, and also your guess on what value it would have circulated at in Holland. As you mentioned, not only other Low Countries coins circulated, and were stamped, but this one caught my interest because I also happen to collect Duchy of Lorraine coins. I think it has the same counterstamp as the ones you are posting for 1573? The Lorraine testons were struck to a similar standard as French testons of the same era, bit over 9 grams, and about 0.900 (for info, host coin here can be dated to 1556-1557).

It appears that the act of stamping created the substantial crack. Gee, does one consider this crack PMD? (Post Mint Damage) Or not, because it occurred at the second mint it passed through?


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1572

the second Dutch revolt (starting April 1 with the capture of Den Briel - op een april verloor Alva den Bril) was caused by harsh taxation of the population (in particular the hated tenth penny) in order to pay the heavy cost of maintaining a large Spanish army in the Netherlands. The second revolt was mostly concentrated in Holland and Zeeland.

In response to this new level of revolt, Alva (the iron duke) started a ruthless campaign of punishment, leaving Brabant for the north and completely destroying a few small cities on his way The normal rule of war was those days that if a city opened its gates before the enemy had installed the pieces of artillery, surrender was under mild conditions, meaning no executions. But Alva violated this principle, with Mechelen, Zuthpen and in particular Naarden (were every inhabitant, man, woman, child was executed).

Alva anticipated that his severity of action would set an example and scare all cities in Holland so mauch that these would not resist but open their city gates. But this reasoning proved to be wrong: his next target, the large city of Haarlem (second largest in Holland, after Dordrecht) closed its gates when the Spanish army arrived. A long siege followed (11 dec 1572 --> 13 july 1573); attack after Spanish attack was defended with success; casualties on both sides were enormous. However, the sea beggars failed to bring aid to the isolated city and famine and exhaustion finally forced Haarlem to capitulate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Haarlem

But the Spanish capture proved to be a Pyrrhus victory and the tide turned in favor of the rebels the following years. The lack of money to pay the Spanish troops and the inundation of the lands surrounding the cities were factors that led to the failure of Alva's campaign to capture Holland. In 1575 he returned southwards, via Zeeland to Brabant, and the iron duke returned disappointed and sick to Spain, never coming back to the Netherlands again.

Below a whole and a half siege daalder (Velddaalder) from the Siege of Haarlem:



In distant area of Europe, king Philippe waged another war - against the Ottoman Empire, the control over the Mediterrenean sea being the main prize; this war had ups and downs for the two sides. A major victory for Spain occured in october 1571 with the naval battle of Lepanto, in Greek waters
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lepanto). The jeton below memorizes this fact.



Dugniolle 2560 'birth of Prince Don Diego / victory at Lepanto'
OBV: Juno with child, horn of plenty peacock IAM NOVA PROGENIES 1572
REV: Captured Ottoman galley TVRCAE CLASSE DEVICTA

Yes another fascinating day of Dutch history! Just in case anyone else hadn't heard of the "hated tenth penny", here is a blurb from wikipedia with a little detail about this 10% tax:






I'm still stuck in German for today. Here is a Groschen minted in the Duchy of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel. You'll notice that there is a very worn wildman on the back. I started a thread on this numismatic personality a while back: http://goccf.com/t/264257

I will sure keep an eye out!

I saw a Swedish daler/daalder in that list too ...

Also a fractional Philipsdaalder for me for 1571, but it is 1/5, and Brabant:

Shame on me! I have changed the info in my spreadsheet.

For anyone who is envious of 1c5d's spectacular collection of jetons on the 80 years' war, the next CNG e-auction has a nice selection.

Another spectacular coin! I understand it is the countermark that makes it rare, but I also like the obverse design of the host coin, with the three crowns (symbolizing the three kings I believe ... very seasonally appropriate ) device showing up both in the arms below the helmet, and in its decoration on top.

There are many interesting things in the list of coins in the Jaarboek article. For instance, the Italian coins that showed up in Holland. The Milanese grosso and Venetian marcello are common enough coins, but even a medium sized silver coin of Alfonso II of Ferrara is exceedingly rare today. I wonder why they were abundant enough then to show up half way across the continent?

I am back to Poland-Lithuania for the next few weeks, staring with this tiny two denar Lithuanian coin from 1570: