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Daalder - William IV

Issuer Lordship of Bergh
Year 1546-1567
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Reference(s) vdCh 3#18.8, Delmonte S#569, CNM#2.06.5
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Reverse lettering DNS` ⋆ PROTECTOR ⋆ VITE ⋆ MEE ⋆ A ⋆ Qᐤ ⋆ TREPIDABO
(Translation: The Lord is my Helper, whom should I fear)
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William IV of Bergh ruled a small but strategically positioned lordship on the eastern edge of the Low Countries, close enough to the duchy of Gelre to matter in the dynastic maneuvering of the mid-sixteenth century. The Bergh family held the right to strike coin — a privilege that became increasingly contested as Habsburg consolidation tightened across the Netherlands. Issuing a daalder-weight piece was a deliberate assertion of that right, not an economic necessity.

Production across a twenty-year window almost certainly reflects interrupted rather than continuous minting, tied to political pressure from Brussels.

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