1 Daalder bust facing right

Batenburg was a small lordship on the Maas in Gelderland whose lords exploited the jurisdictional ambiguity of the early Revolt years to strike coins well above their legal entitlement. The 1577 daalder appears during a window when central Habsburg monetary authority over the Netherlands had effectively collapsed, and minor lords rushed to fill the vacuum — and their treasuries — with silver coinage of questionable authorization.

Delmonte's S#549 designation places this among the scarcely documented Batenburg issues that survive in very small numbers, the barony's minting activity having been curtailed as the Union of Utrecht progressively rationalized coinage rights after 1579.