2 Rosenobels - Mary of Brimeu

Mary of Brimeu inherited the lordship of Megen through the tangled inheritance politics of the Low Countries nobility, and her coinage years of 1585–1587 fall squarely within the most chaotic phase of the Dutch Revolt. The rosenobel denomination itself was an archaic choice by this period — a deliberate echo of the English gold noble, long obsolete in mainstream trade — suggesting this issue was as much a statement of seigneurial privilege as it was functional currency.

Delmonte's G#244 is among the rarer private lordship gold issues of the southern Low Countries. Megen's output was never large.