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| Issuer | Lordship of Reckem |
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| Year | 1624-1657 |
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| Value | 1 Oord (1⁄80) |
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| Reverse description | Central shield bearing the arms of Zeeland — a rampant lion emerging from waves — surmounted by a crowned helmet with mantling, displayed within a plain inner border. The date is divided across the upper field, flanking the crown, with the numerals split on either side of the shield. The surrounding circular legend reads DEVS PROTECTOR NO with the date 1657 incorporated into the legend. The overall design follows the conventional heraldic style employed on the copper oord coinage of the Spanish Netherlands lordships during the mid-seventeenth century. |
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| Mintage | 1624 - - 1627 - - 1655 - - 1657 - - |
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Reckem was a tiny lordship in the southern Low Countries whose coinage rights were exercised aggressively through the mid-seventeenth century, partly as a revenue mechanism and partly as an assertion of seigneurial privilege increasingly at odds with the centralizing ambitions of the Habsburg administration in Brussels. The liard denominations produced under this authority circulated well beyond the lordship's negligible geographic footprint, absorbed into the broader copper currency of the region by proximity and necessity.
The De Mey reference numbers spanning fifteen varieties across this type reflect genuine die diversity rather than collector hair-splitting — production ran across more than three decades with no apparent effort at standardization.