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| Emittent | Vianen, Lordship of |
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| Jahr | 1556-1568 |
| Typ | Standard circulation coin |
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| Aversschrift | Latin |
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| Reversbeschreibung | Central field features an armorial shield bearing the arms of Brederode, surrounded by an inner circle with residual design detail worn from circulation. The outer legend, separated by rosette stops and a cross pattee, reads HENRI DNS D BREDER LI D VIANEN, identifying Hendrik van Brederode as Lord of Free Brederode and Lord of Vianen. The lettering is boldly struck in Gothic capital characters consistent with hammered coinage of the Lordship of Vianen during the mid-16th century. The flan shows characteristic irregularity and surface porosity associated with hand-struck silver issues of this era. |
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Hendrik van Brederode used his lordship of Vianen — a small but technically sovereign territory between Utrecht and Holland — as a private mint to strike coinage that deliberately undercut official Habsburg issues circulating in the nearby provinces. The so-called Madonnadaalder series, of which this is the quarter, drew on the popular Joachimsthaler tradition while keeping Brederode's name on the coin rather than Philip II's. That was the point entirely. Brederode died in 1568, the same year the Dutch Revolt entered its open military phase, having spent years quietly financing opposition to Spanish authority partly through his own minting operations.