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1/2 Liard - Christopher of Manderscheid
| Issuer | Stavelot-Malmedy, Imperial abbey of |
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| Year | 1571-1574 |
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| Currency | Gulden (651-1795) |
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| Obverse description | Quartered coat of arms of the Manderscheid family occupying the central field, featuring the characteristic heraldic charges of the house, set within a beaded inner circle. The shield is rendered in the late medieval hammered style typical of ecclesiastical coinage of the Lower Rhine region. A circular legend in Latin surrounds the shield, separated from it by a beaded border. |
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| Reverse lettering | ADIVVA ME DEVS 1571 (Translation: Help me, God.) |
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Christopher of Manderscheid ruled Stavelot-Malmedy as prince-abbot from 1571 to 1575, a tenure cut short by his death and marked by the financial pressures common to small Imperial abbeys squeezed between larger territorial powers in the Spanish Netherlands. Small copper fractional issues like this one were struck to address chronic shortages of low-denomination circulating coin in the region — a persistent problem that the great mints of the Low Countries consistently underserved.