Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Ducat - Herman Diederik van Bronckhorst DNI HERM
| Issuer | Barony of Batenburg (Dutch States) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1577 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 1 Ducat (3) |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Saint Victor, patron saint of the barony, depicted full-length and armored, standing facing with a halberd in one hand and an orb in the other. The last two digits of the date (77) appear abbreviated between the saint's feet, referencing the year 1577. A Latin legend encircles the figure, and the initials H B appear in the field, referencing the issuing authority. The overall style is consistent with late sixteenth-century hammered ducats of the Low Countries. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Herman Diederik van Bronckhorst inherited Batenburg at a moment when the Dutch revolt against Habsburg rule had fractured the Low Countries into a patchwork of semi-autonomous lordships, each scrambling to assert independent coinage rights. This ducat was struck in 1577, the same year the Pacification of Ghent temporarily united the provinces against Spanish troops — a political arrangement that collapsed almost immediately. Small lordships like Batenburg exploited precisely these intervals of jurisdictional confusion to mint gold on their own authority.
Delmonte G#700 is among the rarer baronial ducats of this period. Batenburg itself was razed by Spanish forces not long after.