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Daalder / 30 Stuiver 'St. Oswalddaalder' - Willem IV
| Issuer | Lordship of Bergh |
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| Year | 1546-1586 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A double-tailed rampant lion occupies the central field, holding the shield of arms of the Lordship of Bergh suspended by a cord, in a composition typical of sixteenth-century Netherlands feudal coinage. The heraldic lion is rendered with dynamic posture and detailed mane, consistent with the hammered die-work of the period. The encircling legend, abbreviated in the customary fashion, is contained between two beaded circles and records the full titulature of the issuing lord. The field is otherwise plain, with the armorial shield as the dominant device. |
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| Reverse lettering | GVIL` ✿ CO` ✿ D ✿ MON` ✿ Z ✿ DNS` ✿ D ✿ BIL` ✿ HE` ✿ BOX` ✿ HO` ✿ Z ✿ WIS` (Translation: William, Count of Bergh and Lord of Bylant, Hedel, Boxmeer, Homoet and Wisch) |
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The counts of Bergh occupied an awkward position throughout the sixteenth century — nominally within the Habsburg orbit yet persistently resistant to Spanish administrative control over the Low Countries. Willem IV, who held the lordship from 1546 to his death in 1586, navigated this tension with varying degrees of success. The St. Oswalddaalder takes its name from the patron saint of the lordship, whose veneration was central to Bergh's local identity long before the monetary union debates of the 1570s began eroding seigneurial minting rights.
These coins circulated alongside issues from the major provincial mints but carried the weight of a minor lord asserting independent monetary authority during a period when the Spanish Netherlands were actively consolidating such rights away from smaller lordships.