1/2 Daalder of 15 Stuiver - Margaretha van Brederode

The Abbey of Thorn was one of the few ecclesiastical institutions in the Low Countries with the formal right to strike coin — a privilege jealously guarded and intermittently contested by secular neighbors. Margaretha van Brederode, who held the position of abbess from 1544 until her death in 1577, came from one of the most powerful noble families in the northern Netherlands, and her tenure coincided with the early tremors of the revolt against Habsburg rule that would eventually tear the region apart.

The vdCh reference being unlisted suggests this specific type was either unrecorded or insufficiently documented at time of publication — not unusual for Thorn issues, which survive in very small numbers and remained poorly systematized in the older literature.