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Penning / 1/8 Stuiver - William IV
| Issuer | Lordship of Bergh |
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| Year | 1565 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Lordship of Bergh occupied an awkward political position throughout the mid-sixteenth century, nominally under Habsburg suzerainty while its lords repeatedly tested the limits of that arrangement. William IV van den Bergh — who would later become one of the early supporters of the Dutch Revolt before defecting back to Spain in 1578 — was issuing copper fractions like this penning at a moment when small-denomination coinage in the Low Countries was chronically undersupplied, leaving local lords with both the incentive and the cover to strike their own.