Ducat - Frederick Lion

The Lordship of Bergh occupied an awkward political position during these years — nominally within the Spanish Habsburg orbit yet increasingly entangled with the rebel provinces. Frederick van den Bergh, for whom this Lion Ducat was struck, navigated shifting allegiances throughout the early Revolt of the Netherlands, a fact that makes the short emission window of 1577–1580 historically coherent rather than arbitrary.

Delmonte G#712 is among the scarcer seigneurial ducats of the period, as Bergh lacked the mint infrastructure of the major provincial powers.