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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Chris B, post: 26683066, member: 87179&quot;]So, if we use the last one from [USER=77704]@panzerman[/USER] for 1580 I will move us on to 1579.</p><p><br /></p><p>A particularly dark Jeton from the Spanish Netherlands</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1702594[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Egmond &amp; Horne&quot; bronze Jeton 1579 MS61 Brown NGC, Van Loon-I-275.2. 29mm.</p><p><br /></p><p>Commemorative issue: Dordrecht promotional jeton to continue the Dutch Revolt</p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse: Soldiers, battling each other</p><p>Script: Latin</p><p>Lettering: PA T RIA P RAESTAT PUGNARE PRO</p><p>Unabridged legend: PRÆSTAT PVGNARE PRO PATRIA 1579</p><p>Translation: It is better to fight for the fatherland</p><p><br /></p><p>Reverse: The two headless bodies of Counts Egmont and Horn with their heads impaled on two posts beside them.</p><p>Script: Latin</p><p>Lettering: DECIPI 1579 QVAM SIMVLATA PACE</p><p>Unabridged legend: QVAM SIMVLATA PACE DECIPI</p><p>Translation: than to be deceived by a feigned peace</p><p><br /></p><p>Edge: Rough</p><p><br /></p><p>Composition: Bronze</p><p>Weight: 6.63 g</p><p>Diameter: 30 mm</p><p>Mint: Dordrecht, Netherlands (1190-1806)</p><p><br /></p><p>Lamoral, Count of Egmont (1522-1568), and Philip de Montmorency, Count of Horn (c. 1518/1526 -1568), were two of the most important noblemen of the Netherlands in the third quarter of the sixteenth century: both were supporters of the Spanish crown. Both protested the imposition of the Inquisition by Cardinal Granvelle, but still remained loyal to Philip II. This opposition enraged the king and he sent in the Duke of Alba to pacify the country. Despite protests from all over Europe, Alba arrested Egmont and Horn, convicted them in a kangaroo court, and had them both executed the next day, 5 June 1568. That action, and Alba&#039;s other cruelties, made the Dutch Revolt inevitable; they have been lauded as heros in both Belgian and the Netherlands ever since. This jeton was struck as a reminder to those engaged in peace negotiations in 1579, of what happened to earlier leaders who had wished for peace.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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