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Daalder 'St. Oswalddaalder' - William IV Open crown
| Issuer | Lordship of Bergh |
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| Year | 1546-1586 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Bust of Saint Oswald, crowned as a king, facing right, holding a sceptre in one hand and a sword in the other, rendered as a half-length devotional effigy in the medieval tradition. A decorative pomegranate ornament appears at the top of the field, serving as a dividing device between the legend and the central device. The inscribed legend, in abbreviated Latin, is contained between two concentric beaded circles encircling the design, identifying the coin's denomination and silver fineness equivalent to 30 stivers. |
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The Lordship of Bergh occupied a strategically awkward position on the eastern border of the Habsburg Netherlands, and its rulers exploited that ambiguity aggressively. William IV, Count of den Bergh, issued coinage under imperial privileges that were, at best, loosely interpreted — the daalder types struck across his long tenure reflect a lordship determined to punch above its jurisdictional weight. The St. Oswald dedication connects this issue to the patronage traditions of the region's older ecclesiastical alliances rather than any contemporary religious statement.
The forty-year date range reflects reuse of dies and continued striking under consistent authority rather than a single prolonged issue.