1/2 Daalder - William V of Bronckhorst-Batenburg

Batenburg was a small lordship in Guelders that punched well above its political weight in the mid-sixteenth century by exploiting imperial minting rights with unusual aggression. William V issued coinage during a period when the Habsburg administration was actively attempting to suppress unauthorized or semi-authorized minting across the Low Countries — the Pragmatic Sanction of 1549 had tightened monetary regulation considerably, making issues like this one acts of deliberate jurisdictional assertion by a minor noble clinging to obsolescent privileges.

The barony was absorbed and its independent coinage effectively ended within a generation. Surviving half daalders from this issue are genuinely scarce in any grade.