LOW COUNTRIES, Spanish Netherlands. Filips II van Spanje. 1555-1598. AR Filipsdaalder (42mm, 33.56 g, 8h). First emission. Antwerpen (Antwerp) in Brabant mint; mm: hand. Dated 1561. Armored and draped bust left, wearing ruff / Crowned coat-of-arms over Burgundian cross; crowned vuurijzer to either side. Vanhoudt 265.AN; G&H 210-1e; Delmonte, Argent 14; Davenport 8627. Lightly toned, minor edge marks. Good Fine.
From the Don T. Hayes Collection. Ex Elsen FPL 207 (January-February 2000), no. 1123.