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Daalder of 30 Stivers - Margaret IV van Brederode
| Issuer | Thorn, Abbey of |
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| Year | 1563 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Thorn's abbesses held the rank of Imperial Princess and struck coins under rights granted by the Holy Roman Emperor — a privilege the chapter defended aggressively against encroachment from neighboring Liège. Margaret IV van Brederode, who governed the abbey from 1544 until her death in 1577, issued this daalder at a moment when the Low Countries' monetary system was being overhauled by Philip II's 1559 ordinances attempting to standardize the proliferating taler-weight coinages across his Netherlandish territories.
Thorn issues from this decade are notably scarce in commerce; the abbey's small population and limited commercial reach meant production runs were modest, and the chapter struck coin more to assert jurisdictional presence than to supply any genuine regional demand.