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1615, Netherlands, Friesland. Nice Silver 6 Stuivers (Schelling) Coin. VF-XF!

Reference: KM-34. Mint Period: 1615-1619 Denomination: 6 Stuivers (Schelling / Adlerschilling) Condition: Minor deposits, areas of weak strikie, otherwise XF! Diameter: 30mm Material: Silver Weight: 4,9gm

Obverse: Crowned and coat-of-arms of fRIESLANDon Burgundian cross, which splits legends. Legend: MO . NO... FRIS (privy mark: lion)     Reverse: Crown above double-headed imperial eagle. Legend: NISI TV DOMINVS NOBISCVM FRVST (privy mark: lion)

Friesland or Frisia is a province in the northwest of the Netherlands. It is situated west of Groningen, northwest of Drenthe and Overijssel, north of Flevoland, northeast of North Holland, and south of the North Sea. In 2010, the province had a population of 646,000 and a total area of 5,749 km2 (2,220 sq mi). The capital and seat of the provincial government is the city of Leeuwarden (West Frisian: Ljouwert), a city with 91,817 inhabitants. Since 2017, Arno Brok is the King's Commissioner in the province. A coalition of the Labour Party, the Christian Democratic Appeal, and the Frisian National Party forms the executive branch. The province is divided into 24 municipalities. The area of the province was once part of the ancient, larger region of Frisia. The official languages of Friesland are Frisian and Dutch.

Matthias of Austria (24 February 1557 – 20 March 1619) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1612, King of Hungary and Croatia from 1608 (as Matthias II) and King of Bohemia from 1611. He was a member of the House of Habsburg.

Matthias was born in the Austrian capital of Vienna to Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor and Maria of Spain.

Matthias married Archduchess Anna of Austria, daughter of his uncle Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria, whose successor in Further Austria Matthias became in 1595. Their marriage did not produce surviving children.

In 1578, Matthias was invited to the Netherlands by the States-General of the rebellious provinces, who offered him the   position of Governor-General. Matthias accepted the appointment,   although the position was not recognized by his uncle, Philip II of Spain,   the hereditary ruler of the provinces. Matthias nonetheless remained as   titular governor for the rebels until they deposed Philip II and   declared full independence in 1581, at which point Matthias returned   home to Austria.

In 1593 he was appointed governor of Austria by his brother, Emperor Rudolf II. He formed a close association there with the Bishop of Vienna, Melchior Klesl, who later became his chief adviser. In 1605 Matthias forced the ailing emperor to allow him to deal with the Hungarian Protestant rebels. The result was the Peace of Vienna of 1606, which guaranteed religious freedom in Hungary and guaranteed the right of Transylvanians to elect their own independent princes in the future. In the same year Matthias was recognized as head of the House of Habsburg and as the future Holy Roman Emperor, as a result of Rudolf's illness.   Allying himself with the estates of Hungary, Austria, and Moravia, Matthias forced his brother to yield rule of these lands to him in 1608; Rudolf later ceded Bohemia in 1611. Matthias's army then held Rudolf prisoner in his castle in   Prague, until 1611, when Rudolf was forced to cede the crown of Bohemia   to his brother.

After Matthias's accession as Holy Roman Emperor, his policy was   dominated by Klesl, who hoped to bring about a compromise between Catholic and Protestant states within the Holy Roman Empire in order to strengthen it. Matthias had already been forced to grant   religious concessions to Protestants in Austria and Moravia, as well as   in Hungary, when he had allied with them against Rudolf. Matthias   imprisoned Georg Keglevic who was the Commander-in-chief, General, Vice-Ban of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia and since 1602 Baron in Transylvania, but soon left him free again. At that time was the Principality of Transylvania a fully autonomous, but only semi-independent state under the nominal suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire, where it was the time of the Sultanate of Women.

Matthias's conciliatory policies were opposed by the more intransigent Catholic Habsburgs, particularly Matthias's brother Archduke Maximilian, who hoped to secure the succession for the inflexible Catholic Archduke Ferdinand (later Emperor Ferdinand II). The start of the Bohemian Protestant revolt in 1618 provoked Maximilian to imprison Klesl and revise his policies.   Matthias, old and ailing, was unable to prevent a takeover by   Maximilian's faction. Ferdinand, who had already been crowned King of   Bohemia (1617) and of Hungary (1618), succeeded Matthias as Holy Roman   Emperor.

Matthias died in Vienna in 1619.