2 Thalers - Jobst Maximilian

Gronsveld was a tiny lordship wedged between the Spanish Netherlands and the Prince-Bishopric of Liège, perpetually contested and administratively inconvenient for everyone involved. Jobst Maximilian von Bronckhorst-Batenburg, who held the lordship, struck coinage in the early 1640s partly to assert jurisdictional standing — the right to mint was one of the few concrete markers of sovereign status a minor lord could actually exercise. By 1642, Spanish military pressure in the region was relentless, and Gronsveld itself would be occupied and stripped of effective independence within years.

The Dav EC II reference places this squarely among the emergency and prestige issues of the low-country lordships — large-module silver struck in runs too small to constitute a monetary policy.