1075989 | SPANISH NETHERLANDS. 1580 AE. PCGS MS62BN (Brown). Dordrecht. 29.1mm. 5.38gm. LIBER REVINCIRI LEO PERNEGAT. Man standing right with the cross, while another man left is taming a lion; holding an olive branch in his right hand and trying to pass him a collar with his left / ROSIS LEONEM LORIS MVS LIBERAT// 1580. A mouse is gnawing at the bonds of a lion chained to the foot of a column, topped by a figure of the Inquisition, INDVT. Dugniolle 2800; van Loon I-279; Pax in Nummis 1121.

Interruption of Peace Negotiations in Cologne.


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The final negotiations held to end the Spanish-Dutch war took place in Cologne in 1580, without success. The Dutch produced this token on which the figure with the cross represents the Pope and the other the King of Spain. The King of Spain made deceptive promises of peace to Holland/Belgium by handing them an olive branch in order to soften them up or even subdue them and then to bind them, repentant, to the old ties.