1/3 Volant - Adolph de la Marck Huy

Adolph de la Marck's episcopate saw Liège caught between French and imperial ambitions, and his coinage reflects that tension directly — small fractional silver issues like this third-volant circulated in a region where competing currencies from Namur, Brabant, and the Bishop's own mint created chronic exchange problems. The volant series itself takes its name from the flying eagle type borrowed from imperial coinage conventions, adapted locally as Liège asserted its own monetary authority within the prince-bishopric's complex feudal standing.