½ Groot "½ Leeuw" - Gilbert of Bronckhorst-Batenburg

Gilbert of Bronckhorst-Batenburg issued this coin under the loosely administered monetary rights that minor Rhineland and Guelders-border lords exploited aggressively in the early fifteenth century. The Lordship of Anholt sat in a jurisdictional grey zone between the bishopric of Münster and the Duchy of Guelders, and that ambiguity was profitable — small lords here routinely struck debased or imitative coinages that undercut larger neighbors while remaining just defensible enough legally to avoid suppression.

The "Leeuw" type was itself an imitation of larger Flemish and Brabantine groot coinage, scaled down and adapted by numerous minor issuers across the Low Countries simultaneously.