Expert: Maria - 9/11/2010

Question
Could you please help expand the abbreviations
MO . NO . COM . HOLLANDIAE and CONFID ENTES VIGILA TEDEO that appears on the 1601 RoosSchelling coin shown at
http://coins.lakdiva.org/dh1670/1601_holland_6st_ag.html
and translate it as has been done for Leeuwen Daalder at
http://coins.lakdiva.org/netherlands/1644_wes_lion_daalder_ag.html
Thanks for any help.

Answer
Hello,

The abbreviated Latin legends  MO. NO. COM. HOLLANDIAE (obverse) and CONFID ENTES VIGILA TEDEO (reverse) that appear on the 1601 RoosSchelling coin may be transcribed as follows:

-MONETA   NOVA COMITATUS  HOLLANDIAE  meaning “New coin of the county of Holland”
-CONFIDENTES VIGILATE DEO meaning “Be alert, you all who trust in God).

See below for learning more.

Best regards,
Maria
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Note that:

-MONETA (nominative, feminine noun, 1st.declension)= coin

-NOVA (nominative feminine of the adjective NOVUS agreed with MONETA) = new

-COMITATUS (genitive of a noun belonging to the 4th.declension) = of the county

-HOLLANDIAE  (genitive of HOLLANDIA, 1st.declension) = of Holland

-CONFIDENTES (vocative, present participle of the verb CONFIDO, I trust) = you all who trust

-VIGILATE ( 2nd.person plural, imperative of the verb VIGILO, I am alert) = be alert

-DEO (dative/ablative of DEUS, God) = in God