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1 Daalder - Herman Dirk of Bronckhorst-Batenburg Type 5
| Issuer | Barony of Batenburg (Dutch States) |
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| Year | 1577 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Half-length armored bust of Herman Dirk of Bronckhorst-Batenburg facing three-quarters right, wearing a richly ornamented breastplate and holding a sword upright in the right hand while resting the left hand on a shield bearing the quartered arms of Bronckhorst and Batenburg. The figure is depicted in the Renaissance style typical of late sixteenth-century Dutch lordship coinage. An inner beaded border separates the central effigy from the surrounding Latin legend. The circular legend reads HERM × THEOD × D × BRO × LI × BAR × I × B × Z × STEIN, identifying the issuer as Herman Theodoor, Lord of Bronckhorst, Baron of Batenburg and Steyn. |
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| Obverse lettering | HERM × THEOD × D × BRO × LI × BAR × I × B × Z × STEIN ⁑ |
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Herman Dirk van Bronckhorst-Batenburg ruled a small, strategically awkward barony wedged between competing powers during the opening decade of the Dutch Revolt. The daalder issues bearing his name were struck under the monetary ordinances of the Habsburg Netherlands, yet the political situation in 1577 — the year of the Pacification of Ghent and William of Orange's triumphant entry into Brussels — made "legitimate" minting authority a genuinely contested question. Small lordships like Batenburg exploited exactly this ambiguity.
KM# 1.1 distinguishes this as the first of several die variants produced under Herman Dirk, suggesting a minting program active enough to exhaust working dies.