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Ducat - Frederick
| Issuer | Bergh, Lordship of |
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| Year | 1578 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Enthroned Madonna seated facing, holding the Christ Child on her lap within a beaded inner circle. The Virgin wears a crown and flowing robes rendered in a bold Gothic hammered style. The peripheral legend reads MONETA NOVA AVREA H 78, referencing the mint of Hedel and the date 1578, with the letters distributed around the coin field outside the inner beaded border. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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The Lordship of Bergh was a small but strategically positioned seigneury in Gelderland, caught between Habsburg authority and the gathering revolt of the northern Netherlands. By 1578, the lord Frederick of Bergh — brother-in-law to William of Orange — was navigating an increasingly untenable political position, nominally within the Spanish orbit while his family ties pulled hard in the other direction. He would ultimately side with the rebel cause. This ducat was struck at a moment when that decision was still unresolved, making the issuing authority itself a kind of open question.