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| Emittent | Prince-Bishopric of Liège |
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| Jahr | 1557 |
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| Gewicht | 28.42 g |
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| Aversbeschreibung | Central quartered shield of arms of the Prince-Bishop Georg of Austria, displaying the heraldic devices of the bishopric of Liège and the county of Looz, surmounted by a crowned lion as crest and flanked by the date 15-57 split across the field. The shield is set within a plain inner circle, with the circumferential legend in Latin Gothic lettering running along the outer border between beaded rims. |
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| Reversschrift | Latin |
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| Zusätzliche Informationen |
Georg of Austria was an illegitimate son of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, legitimized and handed the Prince-Bishopric of Liège in 1544 as part of Habsburg ecclesiastical patronage strategy in the Low Countries. His tenure coincided with the prolonged conflict between the Habsburgs and France, and Liège — technically a neutral Imperial fief — found itself perpetually squeezed between competing armies. The thaler coinage of his episcopate reflects an attempt to assert the territory's monetary independence at a moment when that independence was under constant political pressure.
Delmonte 440 is among the scarcer of the Liège thaler types from this reign.