1617 AD., Netherlands, West Frisia, Leeuwendaalder, Delmonte 836.

Netherlands, West Frisia, 1617 AD.,
Leeuwendaalder (39-40 mm / 26,65 g),
Obv.: MO. ARG. PRO CON - FOE. BELG. WESTF (MONETA ARGENTEA PROVINCIARUM CONFOEDERATUM BELGICARUM WESTFRISIA - "Silver money of the Province of the Netherland Confederation West Frisia") , standing knight in plumed helmet standing left, looking right, supports shield with a lion in the rampant position - staande ridder rechtsom kijkend met voor zich wapenschild met klimmende leeuw.
Rev.: CONFIDENS. DNO. NON. MOVETVR. 1617. (CONFIDENS DOMINO NON MOVETVR - "Who trusts in the Lord will not be moved") , rampant lion in a larger size, with two circles of beadwork around the rim with the motto of the Netherland Confederation, date above - klimmende leeuw nue l..
Davenport 4870 ; Delmonte 836 .

The seven United Provinces of the Netherlands each had the right to mint coins, these included: Holland, Overijssel, Zeeland, Gelderland, Groningen, Utrecht and Frisia. Additionally minting privileges were also extended to the region of West Frisia (which was part of the province of Holland) and the cities of Deventer, Groningen, Kampen, Nijmegen, Zutphen and Zwolle.
The lion dollar (Leeuwendaalder) was produced in six of the seven provinces, in the region of West Frisia and in five of the cities with minting privileges as follows:
Frisia: 1589-1653, as well an an undated issue, Gelderland: 1589-1700/991, Holland: 1575-1697, as well as an undated issue, Overijssel: 1585-1701, Utrecht: 1589-16972, Zeeland: 1589-1658, as well as an undated issue

Lion Dollar Issues - Regions: West Frisia: 1588-1713, as well as an undated issue

Lion Dollar Issues - Cities: Deventer: 1640-1698, Kampen: 1637-1693, Nijmegen: 1692, Zutphen: 1690-1692, Zwolle: 1633-1692

Notes:
Gelderland - The final issue is dated 1700 with 99 appearing under the 00.
Utrecht - There is also a 1579 dated dollar called a (Unie Daalder/Leeuwendaalder). This coin may be a precursor of the Leeuwendaalder as it has the same lion reverse but the obverese contains a crowned shield rather than a helmeted knight holding a shield. Also, the weight of this coin was slightly less than the Leeuwendaalder, 24.75g versus 27.68g; however the fineness, .750, is the same for both coins.
Zeeland - Interestingly, on the 1597-1598 Zeeland issues, as on many other Zeeland coins, the lower half of the lion is covered by ocean waves, because most of Zeeland was below sea level.

A short history of the Leeuwendaalder / Lion Thaler:
The word thaler comes from its place of origin: the town of Saint/Sankt Joachimsthal/Joachimstal in West Bohemia (then Germany; today Jachymov in Czech Republic). Joachimstal means, literally, "Joachim's Valley" (Tal means valley in German). Here, from locally mind silver, the Joachimsthaler, better known by its clipped form thaler or taler, was minted for the first time in 1519. This silver coin -made of a now unknown silver alloy that never tarnished- became one of the most successful coins in monetary history and was widely imitated not only in Germany but also in the Dutch provinces.
In the Dutch provinces, the leeuwendaalder (lion thaler) were first coined in 1575 during the struggle for independence. Soon thereafter leeuwendaalder were issued by six of the seven Dutch provinces, along with independent issues produced by some of the major imperial towns: Kampen, Deventer and Zwolle. The leeuwendaalder was authorized to contain 427,16 grains of 0,750 fine silver. It was lighter than the large denomination coins then in circulation (the ducatoon and the rijksdaalder). Clearly it was more advantageous for a merchant to pay a foreign debt in leeuwendaalder and this became the coin of choice for foreign trade. The leeuwendaalder circulated throughout the Middle East and was imitated in several German and Italian cities.

The word thaler is pronounced as taaler in English. In Dutch and Low German, the initial consonant softened to become daler. The English adopted this form and eventually changed its spelling to the modern dollar. Coins from Low Countries [ie Belgium/S of the region & Netherlands/N of the region] circulated in the American colonies, including the cross thaler of Brabant and the leeuwendaalder of the various provinces. The anglicized form dollar was later used for the Spanish peso and the Portuguese eight-real piece which circulate widely in North America both before and after the United States gains its independence.
The leeuwendaalder was also popular in the Dutch East Indies as well as in the Dutch New Netherlands Colony [ie New York]. This coins also circulated throughout the american English colonies [Maryland, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Maine, etc.] during the XVII and early XVIII centuries and also was counterfeited. Examples circulating in the colonies were usually fairly well worn so that the design was not fully distinguishable, thus they were sometimes referred to as dog dollars.