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Daalder 'St. Martinusdaalder' - Philip of Montmorency PHILIPPVS
| Issuer | Horn |
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| Year | 1540-1568 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Saint Martin on horseback depicted in profile, raising his sword to divide his cloak for a seated beggar shown below him in the field. The coat of arms of Weert appears beneath the horse. The entire design is enclosed within a double pearled border, with the Latin legend distributed around the circumference between the two pearled circles. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Philip of Montmorency, Count of Horn, exercised mint rights as a sovereign lord of the Low Countries, issuing coinage in his own name during a period when Habsburg authority was simultaneously tightening its grip on the region. The "Martinusdaalder" designation reflects the patron saint invoked on this issue — St. Martin of Tours, whose cult was deeply embedded in the Netherlandish territories Horn controlled.
Montmorency-Horn was beheaded on the Grand Place in Brussels in June 1568 on orders from the Duke of Alba, ending both his life and his mint's output in the same stroke. That execution date closes the production window on this type absolutely.