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| Emittent | Vianen, Lordship of |
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| Jahr | 1556-1568 |
| Typ | Standard circulation coin |
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| Aversbeschreibung | Half-length cuirassed bust of Henry of Brederode facing left, holding a plumed tournament helmet in his right hand. A small escutcheon bearing the Brederode arms is placed at the top of the field, with additional heraldic shields dividing the encircling Latin legend at the 3, 6, and 9 o'clock positions. The portrait is rendered in the mannered Renaissance style typical of mid-sixteenth-century Netherlandish die-cutting, with fine detail in the armor's surface decoration. The peripheral legend reads NISI DOMINVS FRVSTRA, a motto drawn from Psalm 127. |
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| Reversschrift | Latin |
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Henry of Brederode used Vianen — a tiny lordship wedged between Utrecht and Holland — as a minting platform to produce coins that deliberately mimicked the weight and denomination structure of the Burgundian-Habsburg monetary system while technically sitting outside imperial jurisdiction. This wasn't an accident of geography; it was a calculated exploitation of Vianen's ambiguous legal status to profit from seigniorage that the Habsburg administration couldn't easily suppress.
Brederode would later become one of the leading figures of the early Dutch Revolt, presenting the Petition of Compromis to Margaret of Parma in 1566. His minting activity at Vianen falls squarely within that same defiant political posture toward Habsburg authority.