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1/2 Mariengroschen - William V of Jülich-Kleve-Berg
| Issuer | Ravensberg, County of |
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| Year | 1585-1587 |
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| Reference(s) | MB#12, Stange#92 |
| Obverse description | Central field features the quartered shield of Ravensberg arms — displaying a chevron device — set within a beaded inner circle. A Latin legend surrounds the shield, incorporating the date at the conclusion of the inscription. The die is struck on a slightly irregular flan typical of hammered billon coinage of the late sixteenth century. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ravensberg was a small county folded into the Jülich-Kleve-Berg territorial complex through dynastic inheritance, and by the 1580s William V — later called "the Rich," with some irony given his financially exhausted administration — was struggling to maintain cohesion across his sprawling, religiously fractured duchies. This issue belongs to the troubled final decade of his rule, before his mental incapacity became undeniable and his son John William assumed effective control around 1590.
Billon fractions of this type circulated heavily in regional markets and survive almost exclusively in worn condition. Stange 92 is scarce in any grade above Fine.