Groot 'Staende Manneken' - William II of Sombreffe

William II of Sombreffe ruled Reckheim as a small lordship wedged between the prince-bishopric of Liège and the duchy of Gelre — a jurisdictional gap that made independent coinage politically viable despite the territory's negligible size. The 'Staende Manneken' series issued from such Low Countries lordships during the fifteenth century exploited this ambiguity deliberately; minor lords minted billon pieces that circulated regionally precisely because larger powers found them too small to suppress and too useful to prohibit.

The broad date range of 1400–1475 reflects genuine uncertainty in attribution rather than a long production run — distinguishing William II's issues from those of adjacent lords requires cross-referencing die linkages across the Lucas and Vanhoudt corpora.