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Daalder of 30 stuiver - Charles of Croy
| Issuer | Lordship of Megen (Dutch States) |
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| Year | 1580-1584 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse lettering | CAROLVS · A · CROY · D · G · PRIN · D : CHI · CO · ME (Translation: Charles of Croy, by the Grace of God, Prince of Chimay, Count of Megen) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Charles of Croy, Lord of Megen, exercised his minting rights during a window of acute political instability in the northern Netherlands — the years following the Union of Utrecht when local lordships were scrambling to assert autonomy and cover military costs simultaneously. The Lordship of Megen was a tiny enclave along the Maas, and its coinage output was correspondingly small, produced in short runs that rarely circulated far beyond the immediate region.
The 30-stuiver daalder denomination placed this issue in direct competition with the provincial coinage being standardized elsewhere in the nascent Dutch federation, a tension that would ultimately end independent seigneurial minting within a generation.