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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lei, post: 4292465, member: 111639&quot;]There&#039;s a funny story about this coinage. From both the 10 sols piece and the florin are two versions. If you take a close look at the paper with the different designs (earlier in this thread) you can see that one variant reads &quot;MON*NOV*ARG*PROV*FOED*BELG&quot; and &quot;IN UNIONE SALUS&quot; and the other version reads &quot;DOMINI EST REGNVM&#039; and &quot;ET IPSE DOMINABITUR GENTIVM&quot;. The first version was issued first. The coin production had already started when a scolar noted that the text in latin was all wrong. The obverse wasn&#039;t the problem and translates: New silver coin from the United Provinces of the Netherlands. But the reverse was hiding a big mistake. The inscription should be a different version of &quot;Concordia res parvae crescunt&quot; (small things flourish by unity), but that slogan was already in use by the Northern Netherlands. A simple version of this motto in French was &quot;l&#039;union fait la force&quot; which means &quot;unity is strength&quot;. In stead of using Concordia Res Parvae Crescunt, someone tried to translate the more simple French version quite wrongly into Latin and came up with &quot;IN UNIONE SALUS&quot; which later turned out to mean &quot;Hail to the onion&quot;. When this mistake was noticed some 53.000 10-sols and 35.000 florins had been struck and had already been distributed. So all the dies were replaced and now they had the inscription Domini etc. which means &quot;The Kingdom is from the Lord and he will rule over his people&quot;. This second emission is smaller, 23.000 10-sols and 25.000 florins. Conclusion: the &quot;In unione Salus version is slightly more common than the &quot;ET Ipse Dominabitur&quot; version.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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