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Ducat - In the name of Ferdinand I
| Issuer | Abbey of Thorn |
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| Year | 1557-1564 |
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| Diameter | 21 mm |
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| Obverse description | Within a beaded inner circle, the enthroned Madonna is depicted facing forward, holding the Christ child, and seated upon a crescent moon — a Marian iconographic motif consistent with Netherlandish ecclesiastical coinage. The arms of Brederode appear in the field below the central device. The surrounding Latin legend is separated from the inner circle by a beaded border. The overall style reflects the hammered gold coinage tradition of the mid-sixteenth century Low Countries. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Abbey of Thorn — a secular canonesses' chapter in the Prince-Bishopric of Liège, later absorbed into the Habsburg Low Countries — held the right to strike coin under imperial authority, issuing in the name of Ferdinand I rather than under any ecclesiastical superior. This was a deliberate assertion of imperial immediacy: Thorn answered directly to the Emperor, not to Rome or to a local bishop. The abbey's gold coinage from this window is exceptionally rare in the market, produced in small quantities for a chapter that was wealthy in land but modest in monetary output.