Liard - Maurice of Nassau

The Principality of Orange was a tiny sovereign enclave surrounded entirely by French territory, which made its coinage rights both jealously guarded and politically fraught. Maurice of Nassau, who held the principality while leading the Dutch revolt against Spain as Stadtholder, used Orange's minting privilege largely as a matter of dynastic prestige rather than economic necessity — the principality's population was small enough that local monetary demand was negligible. The Dh Orange gap in the references suggests this type was either unknown or excluded from Dhénin's survey, a not uncommon situation for minor billon fractions from this enclave.