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Daldre - Robert of Berghes
| Issuer | Liege, Prince-bishopric of |
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| Year | 1558 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by the elaborate quartered coat of arms of the Glymes-Berghes family, flanked by decorative foliate mantling and supported on a columned base, with the date 15-58 divided across the lower portion of the shield. The achievement is surmounted by an ornate crested helm with plumes and additional heraldic devices. The peripheral legend in Latin runs along the outer border, identifying the issuer. The overall composition is characteristic of mid-sixteenth-century Netherlandish heraldic coinage, struck with a beaded inner border. |
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| Reverse description | A large crowned double-headed imperial eagle displayed in the field, with wings spread and heads turned outward, bearing an orb on the breast. The eagle is rendered in the bold, stylized manner typical of Holy Roman Empire coinage of the mid-sixteenth century. A beaded inner border frames the design, with the circumferential Latin legend identifying the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I running around the entire periphery. |
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Robert de Berghes held the see of Liège from 1557 until his death in 1564, a tenure defined largely by his attempts to navigate the growing confessional tensions that were fracturing the Low Countries. The Daldre — a Flemish rendering of "thaler" — was the dominant large silver denomination of the region, and its production at Liège reflected the Prince-Bishops' longstanding right to mint coinage as sovereign rulers, a privilege jealously guarded against both Habsburg encroachment and periodic capitular resistance from the cathedral chapter itself.
Dengis 914 is among the scarcer die combinations for this type.