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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 33850, member: 112&quot;]It&#039;s not an <u>if</u> Aidan - it is a definite. In Delmonte the coin is listed as # 825bis - in Freidberg it is # 80.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is another example struck in the Netherlands, this one at Utrecht - </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.gdjmsp.cointalk.org/coin_pics/Netherlands/1579%20Rose%20Noble%20obv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.gdjmsp.cointalk.org/coin_pics/Netherlands/1579%20Rose%20Noble%20rev.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And you are correct - the British did have a mint at Calais. But even the English nobles struck at Calais were different than the ones struck in England. </p><p><br /></p><p>As to why the Netherlands copied the design of the British coin - who knows. Why did the British copy the designs of the French coins 3 centuries earlier ? Bottom line is - the European countries all copied designs from each other. </p><p><br /></p><p>But during the late 1500&#039;s - the Netherlands was in the beginning stages of its independence from Spain. And England was the enemy of Spain. So the Netherlands, being a weak country, wanted to align themselves with a strong country. They chose England. For England was the largest customer the Netherlands had for the textile trade. Perhaps that was the reason.</p><p><br /></p><p>And they also made sure that the coins could be told apart - there are always small differences. This is even true for the different rose nobles struck at all of the various Netherlands mints - and just about all of them struck one. Some changed the legends - some did not. Some made very minor changes in the design - like the subject coin of this post. Other than the differences I have noted - the two coins cannot be told apart.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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