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1 Daalder 'Leeuwendaalder' - William V of Bronckhorst-Batenburg
| Issuer | Barony of Batenburg Mint |
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| Year | 1556-1573 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | DA ✶ PACEM ✶ DOMINE ✶ IN ✶ DIEBVS ✶ NOSTRIS (Translation: Bring Peace, Lord, in our Days) |
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The Leeuwendaalder was not a native Dutch invention but a deliberate commercial instrument — its weight and fineness calibrated for acceptance in Baltic and Levantine trade circuits where Spanish reales and German talers circulated alongside it. Batenburg's issues are among the earliest in this denomination, struck when William V governed a barony small enough that its mint output was essentially a revenue operation dressed as sovereign coinage.
The Batenburg mint's right to strike was perpetually contested by neighboring authorities, and production across this seventeen-year span was irregular at best.