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1 Daalder - Herman Dirk of Bronckhorst-Batenburg Type 7
| Issuer | Barony of Batenburg (Dutch States) |
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| Year | 1577 |
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| Weight | 26.0 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Herman Dirk van Bronckhorst-Batenburg ruled a tiny, strategically awkward barony wedged between the competing jurisdictions of Gelderland and the nascent Dutch revolt. In 1577 — the same year the Pacification of Ghent was nominally uniting the provinces against Spanish rule — minor lords like Herman Dirk were still exercising independent minting rights that the States-General would progressively curtail over the following decades. The Batenburg mint operated in this shrinking window of feudal monetary autonomy.
Type 7 distinguishes this piece within a series of closely related daalder issues from the same lordship, differentiated primarily by die variants in the heraldic rendering and legend breaks — distinctions that still generate disagreement among specialists in Dutch feudal coinage.