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1/4 Daalder 'Batzelaar' - Margaretha van Brederode
| Issuer | Abbey of Thorn |
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| Year | 1557-1577 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Thorn was an imperial abbey — a Reichsstift — whose abbesses held the rank of imperial princess and exercised the right to strike coin as a direct grant from the Holy Roman Emperor. Margaretha van Brederode, who governed the abbey from 1557 to 1577, came from one of the most powerful noble families in the Low Countries, a lineage that would later produce prominent figures in the Dutch Revolt against Spanish rule. The 'Batzelaar' designation refers to a specific fractional type struck at Thorn during this period, poorly documented in the standard van der Chijs corpus — hence the gap in that reference.
Thorn's coinage output was always limited, the abbey being a small ecclesiastical lordship on the Maas. Survivors from Margaretha's tenure are genuinely scarce.