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2 Stuiver 'Mariagroschen / Mariengrosch' - William IV
| Issuer | Bergh, Lordship of |
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| Year | 1558 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | MON ✿ NO ✿ COMI` ✿ D ✿ MONTE 1558 (Translation: New Money of the Count of Bergh) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Lordship of Bergh occupied a strategically awkward position in the mid-sixteenth century — a small Geldrian territory caught between Habsburg pressure and the early stirrings of Dutch revolt. William IV of Bergh, who held the lordship from 1532 until his death in 1559, issued this piece just a year before he died, making it among the final coins struck under his authority. The Mariagroschen denomination itself was rooted in Lower Rhenish monetary convention, widely circulated across the fragmented territories bordering the Rhine and Ijssel.
CNM reference 2.06.25 places this squarely within a documented but sparsely represented series.