1 Daalder - Herman Dirk of Bronckhorst-Batenburg Type 7

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.