Daalder 'Stephanusdaalder' Saint standing

Nijmegen held a peculiar position in the early sixteenth century — nominally under Habsburg suzerainty but fiercely protective of its rights as a free imperial city, and its coinage reflects that tension directly. The Stephanusdaalder was struck under city authority at a moment when the daalder type was still consolidating as a monetary form across the Low Countries, and Nijmegen's decision to issue under its own name rather than defer to provincial or imperial structures was a deliberate assertion of municipal autonomy. The reference spread across Delmonte 630 and 631 suggests at least two distinct die combinations are documented for this type.