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Courte - Maximilian of Berghes
| Issuer | Bishopric of Cambrai |
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| Year | 1556-1562 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse lettering | + MONETA* NOVA* CAMERASEN (Translation: New coinage of Cambrai.) |
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| Mint | 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.