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Daalder - John I
| Issuer | Gronsveld, Lordship of |
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| Year | 1508-1559 |
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| Diameter | 40 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | IOES D BRONCHORST BARO IN GRONSFELDT (Translation: John of Bronckhorst, Baron in Gronsveld) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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John I ruled Gronsveld — a tiny lordship wedged between Maastricht and Aachen — for over five decades, and the striking of daalders under his authority was part of a broader scramble among minor Netherlandish lords to exercise coinage rights before the Habsburgs systematically curtailed them. The reference spread across vdCh, CNM, and Lucas without a KM number is telling: this piece sits outside the mainstream census of Low Countries coinage, documented almost entirely through specialist regional literature.
Gronsveld's mint output was modest and localized, and surviving examples rarely appear outside Dutch and Belgian collections.