Liard - Maximilian Henry of Bavaria

Maximilian Henry of Bavaria governed the Prince-Bishopric of Liège from 1650 as a prince of the Wittelsbach dynasty, simultaneously holding the archbishopric of Cologne — an accumulation of ecclesiastical territory that made him one of the most politically significant prelates in the Holy Roman Empire. His copper liards served the persistent small-change shortage that plagued the Spanish Netherlands throughout the mid-seventeenth century, a problem no treaty or monetary reform had managed to solve.

Dengis 1107 is among the more frequently encountered Liège coppers of the period, though surface quality varies sharply — copper coinage from this mint was poorly stored and widely circulated among the laboring population for whom it was the primary transactional currency.