2 Schillings - Gottfried III of Dalenbrok

Gottfried III ruled Heinsberg during a period when the lower Rhine was fractured among dozens of small lordships, each asserting the right to strike coin partly as political theater and partly out of genuine commercial necessity. The regional currency competition was fierce enough that several Rhenish princes attempted, with limited success, to standardize circulating silver through multilateral agreements in the mid-fourteenth century.

Heinsberg's coinage rarely surfaces, and the long reign date range assigned to this type reflects genuine uncertainty in the numismatic literature rather than confident attribution.