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Courte - Maximilian of Berghes
| Issuer | Bishopric of Cambrai |
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| Year | 1556-1562 |
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| Currency | Évêché de Cambrai |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central field displays a heart-shaped or pointed heraldic shield bearing the arms of the Cambresis, set within an ornate foliate or scrollwork surround characteristic of hammered ecclesiastical small coinage of the period. The field around the escutcheon is relatively plain, with the design contained within a beaded or plain inner circle. A Latin circumferential legend, separated by stops, identifies this as a new monetary issue of Cambrai. |
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Maximilian of Berghes held the see of Cambrai from 1556 until his death in 1562, a period during which the southern Netherlands remained under Habsburg authority following Charles V's abdication. The courte — a low-denomination copper piece — was the workhorse of everyday exchange in the region, where ecclesiastical lordships retained minting rights as a feudal privilege increasingly at odds with centralizing Spanish imperial policy.
Cambrai occupied an anomalous position: technically part of the Holy Roman Empire rather than the Spanish Netherlands proper, which complicated the bishop's monetary authority in practice.