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Oord / Liard - Philip of Montmorency
| Issuer | Horn |
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| Year | 1566 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Divided shield bearing the quartered coat of arms of Hoorne at right (three hunting horns) and a floral device at left. A circular Latin legend occupies the upper portion of the shield, with the inscription WEERT appearing prominently in the field. The overall style is consistent with mid-sixteenth-century Low Countries seigneurial coinage produced by hammering. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Philip of Montmorency, Count of Horn, was arrested by the Duke of Alba in September 1567 and beheaded in the Grand Place of Brussels the following June alongside Egmont — making any coinage issued under his authority among the most politically charged of the entire Habsburg Netherlands period. His issues date exclusively to 1566, the year before his arrest, when seigneurial minting rights were still being exercised across the Low Countries despite growing Spanish pressure to centralize monetary control. The Lucas catalogue carries no entry for this specific type, leaving vdCh 8#12.22 as the sole referenced authority.