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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marianne, post: 111695, member: 4907&quot;]Thanks to GDJMSP for identifying this coin from my father&#039;s collection: a 1596 helmeted rijksdaalder from the Dutch province of Westfriesland. My family goes back at least 400 years in Enkhuizen, one of several towns in this province that took turns minting coins starting in the late 1500s. (I&#039;m pretty sure this coin was minted in Hoorn, though.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I grew up hearing stories about the Eighty Years&#039; War with Spain, which started about 30 years before this coin was made. Given the timing, I&#039;m thinking that Mr. Helmet is William the Silent. He certainly isn&#039;t saying.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m very new to the coin world and very rusty on my Dutch history.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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