2 Stivers 'Jager' With shield

Groningen struck these billon pieces during a period of acute monetary pressure — the city maintained de facto autonomous minting rights well into the early seventeenth century, a stubbornness rooted in its history as a semi-independent urban power within the loosely confederated Dutch Republic. The "Jager" type takes its name from the hunter figure, though the city's right to strike such fractional billon coinage was perpetually contested by the States General, who regarded provincial and municipal mints as a source of monetary fragmentation.

KM#11.1 distinguishes this variety from related emissions by shield configuration. Billon issues from Groningen in this period circulated heavily in the northeastern provinces, where small change was chronically scarce.