1 Duit DA TRE DRIA

Reckem was a tiny lordship in the southern Low Countries whose right to strike copper coinage was a feudal privilege increasingly out of step with centralizing Habsburg monetary policy. The "DA TRE DRIA" inscription is a phonetic rendering of "d'a trois deniers" — three deniers — in a region where French, Dutch, and local dialect competed on the same coin face. Lords of Reckem exploited their minting rights aggressively during this period, producing small copper for purely local circulation at a time when such autonomous issues were being systematically suppressed across the Spanish Netherlands.