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| Issuer | Lordship of Vianen (Dutch States) |
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| Year | 1577 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | MO × GER × DE × BRO × ET × BA × LI × DO × VI × TRI × s (Translation: Coinage of Gertrude of Bronckhort-Batenburg, free Lord of Vianen, thirty stuivers) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Vianen was a tiny lordship wedged between the major Holland and Utrecht political blocs, and its mint operated largely because the Brederode family had retained the privilege through medieval precedent rather than any practical economic necessity. By 1577, the Dutch Revolt was fracturing coinage authority across the Low Countries — the Union of Utrecht was still two years away, and small lordships were striking their own silver partly to assert continued relevance.
The Gertrude of Brederode attribution places this issue under one of the last periods of active Vianen minting before the lordship's numismatic output became increasingly irregular.