Daalder 'Saint Stephanusdaalder' Nijmegen

Nijmegen struck this daalder under its own civic authority at a moment when the city still exercised independent minting rights within the Habsburg Netherlands — a privilege that would come under increasing pressure as Philip II moved to consolidate control over the Low Countries' monetary system through the coinage ordinances of the 1560s. The Saint Stephanus type takes its name from the city's patron, whose feast provided the nominal occasion for the issue.

The Delmonte S#636 attribution places this among the scarcer provincial daalders of the period. Nijmegen's mint output from these years is notoriously irregular, and the four die varieties recorded by Van der Chijs suggest production spread across multiple working pairs rather than a single sustained run.