1/2 Liard - Ferdinand of Bavaria

Ferdinand of Bavaria held the Prince-Bishopric of Liège for nearly four decades, a tenure made possible largely by his family's aggressive accumulation of ecclesiastical offices across the Holy Roman Empire — he simultaneously held Cologne, Münster, Hildesheim, and Paderborn. Small copper issues like this funded the administrative machinery of a territory that was perpetually caught between Spanish Habsburg and Dutch pressure during the Eighty Years' War.

KM#25 spans nearly forty years of production, which complicates precise attribution of individual strikes to specific dates within the reign.