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1/4 Groot - Frederick III
| Issuer | Lordship of Bergh |
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| Year | 1387-1416 |
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| Currency | Groot (-1506) |
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| Obverse lettering | ✠ FREDERICVS ⁑ DNS ⁑ DE ⁑ BER (Translation: Frederick, Lord of Bergh) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Frederick III van den Bergh ruled a small lordship on the Lower Rhine frontier, and his coinage reflects the monetary fragmentation typical of the German-Dutch border territories in this period — dozens of minor lords exercising minting rights to facilitate local trade rather than any broader fiscal ambition. At 0.21g, this quarter groot sits at the practical floor of viable silver coinage; anything lighter would have been functionally indistinguishable from silver wash on base metal.