Thorn was an imperial abbey — a Reichsstift — answerable to the Holy Roman Emperor rather than any secular prince, which gave its abbesses the right to strike coin under imperial authority. Margaret IV van Brederode held the position from 1544 until her death in 1577, a long tenure that produced several issues, this daalder among them. The abbey's minting rights were a chronic source of friction with neighboring Gelderland and the bishops of Liège, both of whom disputed Thorn's monetary independence at various points in the sixteenth century.
The 30-stiver denomination places this squarely in the Netherlands daalder tradition then being standardized across the Low Countries.
Thorn was an imperial abbey — a Reichsstift — answerable to the Holy Roman Emperor rather than any secular prince, which gave its abbesses the right to strike coin under imperial authority. Margaret IV van Brederode held the position from 1544 until her death in 1577, a long tenure that produced several issues, this daalder among them. The abbey's minting rights were a chronic source of friction with neighboring Gelderland and the bishops of Liège, both of whom disputed Thorn's monetary independence at various points in the sixteenth century.
The 30-stiver denomination places this squarely in the Netherlands daalder tradition then being standardized across the Low Countries.